Welcome back to the morning mindset. I want to start out this morning by asking you to

imagine yourself in a certain setting. Imagine yourself out in some rolling hill country. They're beautiful

lush green hills and you can see the crevices between the hills where water runs whenever there's a downpour of rain.

And you look overhead and you see the dark clouds are looming.

Heavy rain clouds are amassing overhead. The wind is blowing, it's feeling cooler, you can tell,

it's probably time for one of those downpours to come.

And you step aside under a big for one of those downpours to come.

And you step aside under a big oak tree

and you wait and you watch and with a clap of thunder,

a downpour begins. What happens to all that water as it

pours down through the branches of the trees? You feel some of it

landing on your head, but much more of it is landing out there in the open fields.

And what happens to it? It flows down the hillside. It flows into those crevices that you saw between the hills, and it floods its way down,

it washes its way down into a riverbed, and eventually perhaps into a river.

You've just noticed something about the way nature works.

That is a reflection and illustration of how God works in the lives of his people.

In the book Humility Andrew Murray writes this,

Just as water ever seeks and fills the lowest place.

So the moment God finds the creature abased and empty,

His glory and power flow in. and Just like gravity forces water to the lowest place and it fills up that lake or the lake bed.

God's power and God himself comes and fills those who are lowly, those who have emptied themselves of self.

Those who have emptied themselves of self.

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