to which we have become used. You wouldn’t think that humbling yourself and becoming obedient could produce success. But where God is concerned, it is humility and obedience which belong together. The one depends on the other. The words of John the Baptist remind us of this truth, as he referred to Jesus ‘I must decrease, he must increase.’ But so many of us get the wrong picture in our mind at this point. Humbling yourself is not that odious, pathetic, self-deprecating attitude, which is sadly seen