Grace for the Humbled

Jacob could not be blessed with the change of his identity from Jacob (“Usurper”) to Israel (“Prince of God”) until his hip was displaced and he walked with a terrible limp. Saul was not useful to Jesus until he had been broken with blindness and then with humiliation by having to lean on the prayer of a follower of Jesus, (Whom he hated) and being baptized by him.

When we surrender to Jesus, it is most effectively done on our faces rather than on our feet, I think. The greater our sub-mission, the more effective our baptism in His Spirit will be, I think.

He gives grace to the humbled.