BE ABASED & ABOUND Ill

DAILY GRACE
THUR.18TH FEBRUARY, 2016
TOPIC: BE ABASED & ABOUND Ill
TEXT: PHIL 4:12

You will receive favourable glad tidings today by His grace.
As we rap up our expository insights on being able to abased and abound in life as Christian. We must not forget the impact of contentment on our decision to heed this great virtue.
Today, there are many who know "how to be abased" who have not learned "how to abound." When they are set upon the top of a pinnacle their heads grow dizzy, and they are ready to fall. The Christian far often disgraces his profession in prosperity than in adversity. 
 The crucible of adversity is a less severe trial to the Christian than the refining pot of prosperity. Oh, what leanness of soul and neglect of spiritual things have been brought on through the very mercies and bounties of God!
Yet, this is not a matter of necessity, for the Apostle tells us that he knew how to abound. When he had much he knew how to use it.
Abundant grace enabled him to bear abundant prosperity. When he had a full sail he was loaded with much, and so floated safely. It needs more than human skill to carry the brimming cup of mortal joy with a steady hand, yet Apostle Paul had learned that skill as we x~ray yesterday, for he declares, "In all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry." It is a divine lesson for you to know how to be full, for the Israelites were full once, but while the flesh was yet in their mouth, the wrath of God came upon them.
 Many have asked for mercies that they might satisfy their own hearts' lust. Fullness of bread has often made fullness of blood and that has brought on wantonness of spirit. When we have much of God's providential mercies, it often happens that we have but little of God's grace, and little gratitude for the bounties we have received. We are full and we forget God, satisfied with earth, we are content to do without heaven.
Be rest assured that it is harder to know how to be full than it is to know how to be hungry--so desperate is the tendency of human nature to pride and forgetfulness of God.
Friends, take care that you ask in your prayers today that God would teach you how to be full.
 Personal Confession: Father, teach me how to be full of your grace to abound and abased.
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