Always Be Aware You May Be Wrong

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Royal Insignia is the title given to a compilation on the subject of humility, written and compiled by Edwin and Lillian Harvey, and it makes us ask the question, “What indeed is the sign that we are true followers of Jesus Christ? Watchman Nee puts this exact question to us in the following quotation from the above-mentioned book:
“Circumcision was a sign that marked out the Jew from the rest of mankind. What is the corresponding mark of our Christian life before men? Is it charity? Wisdom? Sincerity? Zeal? Other men have these. None of them is peculiar to the people of God, but there is one that is. It is a seemly absence of self-confidence! What distinguishes God’s own is that their confidence in the flesh is destroyed and they are cast back upon Him.

I have known Christians who are so sure they know the will of God that they will not for one moment consider they may be mistaken. I tell you they still lack the supreme sign of the spiritual “circumcision,” namely, no confidence in the flesh. The spiritual man walks humbly, always aware he may be wrong. He assents gladly to the apocryphal beatitude: Happy are they who realize they may be mistaken!”
—Watchman Nee in A Table in the Wilderness. Quoted in Royal Insignia, p. 166

“Meekness,” states Oswald Chambers, “is a state of flexibility in the hand of God and a condition of inflexibility to evil. It is a domestic word used of a disciplined animal. Meekness is self-control and like the mighty engine can polish a needle or cut a bar of iron. It is man’s spirit under the control of God’s Spirit.
—Oswald Chambers. Royal Insignia, p. 168

Live Christ—and though thy road may be
The strait way of humility;
He Who first trod that way of God
Will clothe thee with His dignity.
—John Oxenham. Royal Insignia, p.176

Royal Insignia is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their Online Christian Bookstore.

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