Though I Be Nothing

APRIL  28

Though I be nothing

2 Corinthians 12:11  I am become a fool in glorying;

 ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended

of you: for in nothing am I behind the very

chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

This was Paul’s estimate of himself; less than the least of all saints, and the chief of sinners.

The more we know of ourselves and of Jesus, the more shall we be humbled in the dust before God; and the lower we lie before God, the happier and holier we shall be.

Man will, must be something; this is his pride and his misery,

the Christian is willing to be nothing, that Christ may be all in all.

If we daily felt that we are nothing, how many mortifications we shall be spared; what admiring views of the grace of God would fill and sanctify our souls.

Apart from Christ we are less than nothing, but in Christ we are something.

We are empty, but He fills us;

naked, but He clothes us;

helpless, but He strengthens us;

lost, but He finds us;

ruined, but he saves us;

poor, but He supplies us.

All we are, is by Christ; all we have is from Christ; all we shall be, is through Christ.

Believer, thou art nothing; therefore beware of thinking too highly of thyself, or fancying that you deserve more then you receive, either from God or men.

Humble souls are soon satisfied.

Oh, could I lose myself in Thee,

Thy depth of mercy prove,

Thou vast unfathomable sea

Of unexhausted love!

I loathe myself when God I see,

Content if Christ exalted be.

James Smith