“Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, ‘Who am I,’ O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?~ 2 Sam. 7:18
If true humility is seeing yourself as you really are, and seeing God as He actually is, then David was truly a humble man. God’s darling never thought higher of himself than he should. In fact, when he was “before the Lord,” it was the opposite. As Matthew Henry states, “The greatest of men are worms, and the best are sinners.”
The shepherd boy never forgot his humble beginnings, how God had taken him from the sheepcotes, and following the sheep, to being ruler over His people. It is easy to forget the pit we were dug from, once God has made something out of the clay.
It would be wise for many of us today to think back about our origin in life, before God’s call to us. If we did, I imagine we all would have to say, with Mephibosheth of old, “What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am.”
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