DAILY GRACE
TUE.16TH FEBRUARY, 2016
TOPIC: BE ABASED & ABOUND I
TEXT: PHIL 4:12       

Welcome to a new day. It shall be a day of strength and fulfilment for you.
This is a special act of grace to accommodate ourselves to every condition of life, and carry an equal temper of mind through all the varieties of our state. Let's look at this special act of grace closely:

Firstly, to accommodate ourselves to an afflicted condition- to know how to be abased, how to be hungry, how to suffer want, so as not to be overcome by the temptations of it, either to lose our comfort in God or distrust His providence, or to take any indirect course for our own supply.

Secondly, to a prosperous condition-to know how to abound, how to be full, so as not to be proud, or secured or luxurious. And this is as hard a lesson as the other, for the temptations of fullness and prosperity are not less than those of affliction and want. But how must we learn it? I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, (Phil. 4:13).          
We must secure strength from Christ to enable us to perform not only those duties which are purely Christian, but even those which are the fruit of moral virtue. We need His strength to teach us to be contented in every condition and situation. The Apostle had seemed to boast of himself and of his own strength, I know how to be abased (Phil. 4:12) but here he transfers all the praise to Christ. “What do I talk of knowing how to be abased and how to abound? It is only through Christ who strengthens me that I can do it, not in my own strength but by His grace.” So we are required to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might (Eph. 6:10), and to be strong in the grace which is in Christ Jesus (2 Tim. 2:1); and we are strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man.

To be continued....

Personal Confession: Father, infuse me with the fullness of your grace to be abased and abound in life in Jesus Christ's name.

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