Unrecognized pride
Proverbs 11:2
2 When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom.
Ask and You Shall Receive
Unrecognized pride. Not long ago the Lord began to deal with me about pride. I prayed that super religious prayer for God to work out anything in me that could hinder my relationship with Him. He answered it of course and it brought me to my knees.
Pride
I’ve always known pride to be the sin that got the devil thrown out of Heaven. I’m sure we’ve all heard that at one point. When we think of pride we think of someone who seems to act as though they are above everyone else. They don’t have to follow the rules like the rest of us. We tend to think of someone who is “full of themselves” , as we like to say. When you google the definition of pride it says; Pride is defined by Merriam-Webster as “reasonable self-esteem” or “confidence and satisfaction in oneself”. Oxford defines it as “the quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s own importance.”
My Problem
God gave me quite a different view of pride that really opened my eyes. The devil not only tricked me into the sin of pride, but manipulated me into feeling bad about myself, causing me to separate from others, while being in that sin of pride. For example, I wouldn’t think, I don’t need anyone’s help because I can do it just fine on my own. I would think everyone else has so much going on right now I don’t want to bother them with my small problems, or I would think they wouldn’t want to help me anyways.
He would make me believe that if I told anyone anything going on in my life they would tell everyone else the private things I told them. To be honest that one came true more times than I’d like to even talk about, but that wasn’t the point. That was between them and God. If the Lord laid it on my heart to reach out to someone for help, it was my responsibility to do it. I would feel like I needed to pray for someone. That feeling would be followed immediately by the thought that I was not good enough to pray for that person. You can see where I’m going with this. On and on it would go.
Eye Opener
We never think of those types of things as being anywhere near prideful but they most certainly are. Are you easily embarrassed? Why? Probably pride to be honest. Let God open your eyes to work this thing out of you. It definitely won’t be easy, but the consequence of holding onto it is much greater.
Proverbs 8:13, 16:5, 29:23, James 4:6, Philippians 2:3
***Lord, please forgive me for my unrecognized pride. Help me to see the things I need to change to be in a deeper, closer relationship with you. God, I don’t want anything to separate me from you. Guide me the way I should go and allow me to help others in the process. I thank you and praise you Lord. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.***
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