Humble Dependence by Dr. McLeod

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 31, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 29.

Humble Dependence.

By Dr. McLeod

GOD knows me better than I know myself. He knows my gifts and powers, my failings and weakness, what I can do and cannot do. So I desire to be led, to follow him. And I am quite sure that he has thus enabled me to do a great deal more in the ways which seem to me almost a waste in life in advancing his kingdom than I could have done in any other way. I am sure of that. Intellectually, I am weak; in scholarship, nothing; in a thousand things, a baby. He knows this, and so he led me, and greatly blessed me, who am nobody, to be of some use to my church and fellow-men. How kind, how good, how compassionate art thou, O God! O my Father, keep me humble! Help me to have respect toward my fellow-men, to recognize these several gifts as from thee. Deliver me from the sins of malice, envy, or jealousy, and give me hearty joy in my brother's good, in his gifts and talents; and may I be truly glad in his superiority to myself if God be glorified. Root up all weak vanity, all devilish pride, all that is abhorrent to the mind of Christ. God hear my prayer! Grant me the wondrous joy of humility, which is seeing thee as all in all.—Dr. McLeod.