Humility by Andrew Murray
Week 12: Chapter XI — Humility and Happiness
Read Chapter XI of Humility by Andrew Murray. Key texts: 2 Corinthians 12:9–10.
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This chapter makes a claim that most of us have never really believed: the humble person is the happiest person — not in spite of weakness and humiliation, but because of what they find in that place.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Murray describes two stages in a Christian's relationship to humiliation: first, fearing and fleeing it; second, 'most gladly glorying' in it as Paul did. Where would you honestly place yourself between those two stages right now?
2.He says that what moved Paul from the first stage to the second was 'a new revelation of the Lord Jesus' — a clearer sight of Christ that made His presence more desirable than Paul's own comfort or reputation. Have you ever experienced something like that — a vision of Christ that made something you feared or resented suddenly seem small?
3.Murray notes that Paul — a man of extraordinary spiritual experience who had been 'caught up to the third heaven' — still needed a thorn in the flesh to keep him from pride. What does that say about the relationship between spiritual depth and the ongoing danger of self-exaltation?