Daily Affirmations - Day 2 - Lowly and Victorious

Day 2: The Highest Place

In reverence I bow down toward Your holy temple

Better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked (Psalm 84:10).

Suppose we… ask what act in our own life we look back upon with the greatest satisfaction, what day we think of as the brightest and divinest of all our days. What achievement of yours do you consider the highest in all your life? Do you think of a day when you made some signal triumph in school, or won some unusual success in business, or carried off the honors in some contest, or did some fine piece of work which men praised?

We are apt to think the red-letter days in our life are the days when we gathered honor for ourselves. But... are these the best days in our lives? Someone has said, “The greatest thing a man can do for his heavenly Father is to be kind to some of the Father’s other children.”

The things that are really the brightest in your life, are not the honors you won for yourself, the brilliant successes you achieved, nor the prosperities which added to your importance among men—but the deeds of love which your hand wrought in Christ’s name for some of His little ones.

The brightest day in all your life was the day you did your purest, most unselfish, most self-denying act for your Master, in serving one of His people. It is only when we have some measure of Christ’s self-renunciation, that we have touched the truest and Christliest things in life.

~ James R. Miller ~ Having the Mind of Christ

We humbly bow

Before You now

We lift our lives up to You

On our knees we bring

Our humble offering

Of worship and honor and praise

Boldly we come to Your throne O Father

But only by grace can we come

We've been bought by the precious blood of the Lamb

We lay down our lives before You, Jesus

We willingly give You all