How one does long to know more of this! “God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.” What a difference between the two attitudes! God must resist the proud; but when man takes his true place, God has nothing to resist; every barrier is removed, and the full tide of divine goodness can flow into the lowly heart. God can dwell with a lowly heart. There may be great weakness, great poverty, nothing attractive; but God can dwell there, and that is enough. It is a great point to be able to ascertain what God can go along with. He certainly can not go on with pride, with assumption, with pretension, with bustling self-importance. Whenever you see these things in a man, you may be sure God is, not dwelling with him.