myself to their level if I forgive? Won't it be the same as saying that what they did was quite right after all? Shan't I be calling wrong, right? Isn't forgiveness turning light and wrong upside down? * • • Humble Like a Child Lot us look into these matters a moment. Take humility first. Jesus' illustration of humility is not some down-and-out lazy person without dreams, desires or ambi tions His model is the child. What is the humility of a child? It is the quality of teachableness. The child is /iot set in his ways. He is trust ful Even the liveliest child, even the most stubborn, will believe what he is told, and has a never satisfied curiosity about every thing You can t tell the college sophomore much; he thinks he knows enough as it is. But no child thinks he knows everything. He is not suspicious, cynical, sophisti cated, superior. He can grow. Call the roll of the world's truly great men. they all have this qual ity of childlikeness, whether a greatly daring [>erson like Scott, the explorer of the Antarctic, or a greatly wise person like Abraham Lincoln, or a greatly imaginative person like John Bunyan. All forms of greatness have in them the qual ity of the childlike. And the special humbleness that is essential for Christians is not only this, but humility before God. For the one sin that keeps one farthest away from God is the very opposite of childlikeness, namely pride. • . *

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