How one does long to know more of the lowly path. “God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.” What a difference between the two attitudes of lowliness and pride! God must resist the proud, but when man takes his true place lowly and humbled before God He has nothing to resist; every barrier is removed, and the full tide of divine goodness can flow into the lowly heart.
God can dwell with a lowly heart. There may be great weakness, great poverty, nothing attractive, but God can dwell there, and that is enough. It is vital to discover what God can go along with. He certainly cannot go on with pride, presumption or haughty self-importance. Whenever you see these things in a man, you may be quite sure God is not dwelling with him.
We are not speaking here of salvation, but of the precious privilege of having God make His abode with the individual believer. It is this which provides the moral security of a lowly path. Oh! that we believers may know it in reality in this day of human arrogance!
Adapted from Things New & Old, 1863