Zephaniah 3:11-12 KJV
In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all
thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take
away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no
more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
I will also leave in the midst of thee an
afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
It is the
nature of sinful man to rally around the proud thing. For Israel , that
had become their city and especially their temple. Though they claimed to be
the people of God, they had become in fact, the people of the Temple . God's business in their captivity was
to
- Strip away their pride[1]
- Remove from them the reason of their pride
and
- Leave them an afflicted and poor, but
faithful people
Americans
have many more sources of pride than I can list. Suffice it to say that to trust
in any of them is to sin against God and leave ourselves in spiritual peril.
The wise thing, the holy thing is to identify our temples and remove them
before the Lord does. We never grow humble from the study of humility. We
become humbled by the removal of those workers of pride:
- People
- Possessions
- Popularity
all must
be plowed over if they have the effect of generating pride in us.
To trust
in the name of the Lord; that is our sole aim.
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