Pride Can Bring You Down

A man’s pride will bring him low, but the humble in spirit will retain honor. Proverbs 29:23

We all battle pride at some point in our lives. If you haven’t, please let me know! Dr. Henry Blackaby gives us some ways that pride will bring us down:

1. Pride will hold us back from asking forgiveness.
2. Pride will keep us from looking at sin in our lives and dealing with it.
3. Pride will give us an inflated view of ourselves.
4. Pride will impede serving others.
5. Pride will get you to think you are more prominent than others.
6. Pride will get you to listen to flatterers and ignore honest counselors.
7. Pride insolates us from accountability.

The opposite of pride is humility. I will touch on that tomorrow.

Are you battling pride? Walk in the victory that God has already provided for you. Allow Him to work humility in your life. – Bill Welte is President & CEO of America’s Keswick

Team YOU: Job 11-13; Proverbs 28; Acts 9:1-21

Motivations: Once you were His enemy, now you are His friend. Once you were dead in sin, now you are alive in a relationship that is eternal. When you called on Him as a sinner He saved you on the ground of the blood that was shed for you. Do you imagine He is going to allow His child to be cast away? It is only deliberate, willful sin that has not been confessed and forgiven that makes us feel that God has forsaken us, for that sin causes Him to hide His face from us. Alan Redpath

Practice to Remember: Level 1:Philippians 1:29; Level 2: Philippians 1:27-30

Powered Up:  Murmuring with the mouth looks easy, or looks easy. But to fill words with sincerity of the heart in diligent devotion, i.e., desire and faith, so that we seriously desire what the words contain and do not doubt that prayer is heard, that is a great work in the sight of God. Martin Luther