Have you had your coffee yet? Good. Here are some Thoughts for Saturday from this past weekends talk at the Grace Place.
THE PROBLEM:
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Pride cannot be bargained with, convinced, assuaged, calmed down or otherwise reasoned with…
THE CURE:
YOU MUST KILL IT!
PRIDE CROWDS EVERYONE OUT!
When you are full of you there is no room for anyone else.
Pride de-prioritizes everyone else in the room
Worst of All…
PRIDE CROWDS GOD OUT AS WELL!
In His Pride the wicked man does not seek Him In all of his thoughts there is no room for God. (Ps. 10:4 NIV)
(Literally in Hebrew: There is No God to him.)
I cannot pass up this Biblical truth without sharing the BIG understanding behind it. Here it is:
Your Pride not your Intellect is keeping you from God!
PRIDE CROWDS EVERYONE OUT!
When you are full of you there is no room for anyone else.
Pride deprioritizes everyone else in the room
Worst of All…
PRIDE CROWDS GOD OUT AS WELL!
Your real issue is not how smart you are but how proud you are.
God is speaking to you right now.
Not only are you using your intellect to stiff arm God you are using it to stiff arm people in your life.
If all you want to do with your life is win an argument your wasting your life!
No one will ever love you as much as Jesus. If we are willing to kill our Pride we can make room for Him to lead our lives.
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