Section 4
means to humble yourself, to empty yourself, to take something off of you and to strip something from you.
Allow me to speak very frankly. During my Christian life, I have met a good number of brothers and sisters in my travels to various places. Many are so spiritual, but they are also proud. They are proud of their spirituality. They wear a garment of spirituality. When they come together, they look down on others, thinking that the others have never seen a heavenly vision or known anything spiritual. What is this? This is their pride. They are proud of being spiri tual. If we take this attitude, it will be impossible for us to minister foot washing to others. When ever we come together with the saints, on the contrary, we must take off our garments and forget our attainments. We must be carefully aware of this matter. We all have been guilty of this attitude. How often we have had the thought: "Oh, they do not know the church life; they do not know how to walk in the spirit; they have never learned the lessons of the inner life." This is pride. If we take this proud attitude, we can never help others. We must lay aside our gar ments, our attainments, our spirituality. We must lay aside all degrees of spirituality and become