What do you have?
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"For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have—that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?" 1 Corinthians 4:7
Believer, ponder this question! It is intended to destroy the pride of your heart, and to produce genuine humility.
What do you have?
Look around you—how many mercies!
Look within you—what gifts and graces!
Look before you—what glorious prospects!
Compare yourself with many of your acquaintances; contrast your circumstances with theirs—how different! how preferable!
Who made you to differ?
Who conferred these benefits upon you?
Did you receive them from God?
Then gratefully acknowledge it.
Then be humble before Him.
Then beware of boasting before men—or of despising others!
Trace all your mercies up to their source—and you will find them all to be from God's free and sovereign grace!
In ourselves, we have . . .
nothing that is good,
nothing that is valuable,
nothing that is useful,
nothing that is lovely—but what we have received it from our good and gracious God! Therefore let him who boasts—boast in the Lord—and adore His sovereign grace!
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