While working on this small volume, I was convicted again and again of my own desire to self-protect, self-perform, and self-gain. In one of my favorite quotes from chapter 7, Murray says, “Humility is the bloom and beauty of holiness,” and this has remained a reminder to me of where true humility is born, even if it is never fully grown in us. The pursuit of holiness and the worship of the only One True Wise King who is holiness Himself, is the path toward humility. It is in worship, not vain asceticism,
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