My Dear Friends:

When you are godly humble, God can use you. When God makes use of you, He takes full control of you. When God takes full control of you, ungodly men immediately hate you for they have zero influence over you.

With the proud it is not so. The proud man is controlled by his greed and not by our God. The proud seeketh to use God, God’s Word, God’s Servant, God’s Mercy but never submits himself to the full complement of God’s Word or God’s Wisdom and omnipotence.

Stay humble and bless God. Worry not that men despise you, for you are off limits to their global and insidious powers.

Dr. James David Manning