Humility~ CJ Mahaney continued....

I have had the most Spiritual filled week ever and i wanted to continue to share with you what i have been learning out of CJ Mahaney's book Humility. As each day ends we should

7. End the day transferring the GLORY to God

This is so important because we can so often not even than God for the day He has so graciously given us.

"Whatever successes you experience in you life and ministry and vocation, learn to immediately transfer the glory to Him" ( 81)

Something else that i learned that i am so happy to do from now on is...

8. Thank God and receive His gift of sleep and acknowledge His purpose for sleeping

I am more than happy to thank God for sleep but the bigger picture is that we need to understand the true purpose of sleep. It's not just laying our head down to rest and waking up the next morning but acknowledging that WE ARE NOT GOD! My high school pastor says that every time we are at Summer Camp or Winter Camp because as teenagers we are so use to staying up until 12am ever night and he wants us to go to sleep. In this section i learned that it's so true and we often don't even think about sleep and God together. I don't think I've ever "thanked" God for sleep unless i was extreme

ly tired but to me that was a joke. This is seriously teaching us that God doesn't sleep or fall asleep EVER! In Psalm 121:4 it says "Behold he who keeps Israel does not slumber nor SLEEP." Can you imagine that!! What a different view i have of God and a lesser view we should have of ourselves! I can't even stay up 24 hours but God NEVER sleeps we should be so thankful to the Lord for giving us the wonderful gift of sleep and be reminded that "we are the creature and He is the Creator" (84)

"Seize this opportunity to mortify pride and cultivate humility by setting apart sleep as a holy gift from God, as a reminder of your full dependence on Him and as an occasion to examine your heart before Him." (86)