Humility by Andrew Murray
Week 13: Chapter XII — Humility and Exaltation
Read Chapter XII of Humility by Andrew Murray. Key texts: Luke 14:11; Luke 18:14; James 4:10; 1 Peter 5:6.
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Murray brings the whole argument to its conclusion: humility is not the bottom of the staircase but the very door to exaltation — and the God who promises to lift up the humble is entirely trustworthy.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Murray opens with a question posed to him: 'How am I to conquer this pride?' His answer is deliberately simple: 'Do what God says is your work: humble yourself. Trust Him to do what He says is His work: He will exalt you.' Does that answer feel satisfying or too simple? What might make it harder in practice than it sounds?
2.He explains that the command to 'humble yourself' does not mean conquering pride by your own power — that is God's work. What it does mean is to 'take every opportunity of humbling yourself before God and man.' Can you name two or three concrete opportunities to do that in your current life?
3.Murray describes God's pattern in all His dealings as moving through two stages: preparation (effort, failure, partial success, growing desire) and then fulfillment (faith inheriting what it could not achieve). How have you seen that two-stage pattern in your own life — in prayer, in character growth, in faith?