“The Pride of False Humility”

“The Pride of False Humility”
from: The Call
Author: Rick Joyer

I heard irritation in the Lords voice when He said this. I felt that it was like the irritation He seemed to have with His disciples in the gospels. Immediately I understood that His irritation usually came when they started looking at their inadequacies or failures.

“Lord, I’m sorry,” I pleaded, “But your presence is so overwhelming. How do I keep from feeling so small when I’m close to you like this?”

“You are small, but you must learn to abide in My presence without looking at yourself. You will not be able to hear from Me or speak for Me if you are looking at yourself. You will always be inadequate. You will always be unworthy for what I call you to do, but it will never be your adequacy or worthiness that causes Me to use you. You must not look at your inadequacy, but look to My adequacy. You must stop looking at your own unworthiness and look to My righteousness. When you are used, it is because of who I am, not who you are.

“You did feel My anger as you began to look at yourself. This is the anger I felt toward Moses when he started to complain about how inadequate he was. This only reveals that you are looking to yourself more than to Me, which is the main reason why I am able to use so few of My people for what I desire to do. This false humility is actually a form of pride that caused the fall of man. Adam and Eve began to fell inadequate and that they needed to be more than I had made them to be. They took it upon themselves to make themselves into who they should be, but you must trust Me to make you into who you should be” ….I knew that this was a major stumbling block preventing many from becoming useful to the Lord!!!!