Pride

Pride....how would you define it?  If you know how to define it, do you think
you could identify it?  Pride can be defined as a feeling that you are more
important or better than other people.  Ouch....I can identify with that and
especially in my own heart, pride has reared it's ugly head.  Where do we go for
guidance and direction? We turn to God's word....it is our weapon.  Get out the
child training bible and begin to look at it as your sword of the Spirit, your
weapon of offense! 

Proverbs 21:4 says "haughty eyes and a proud heart! the lamp of the wicked, are
sin!"

Proverbs 16:18 reads like this, "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit
before a fall."

This is what King David wrote about The Lord in 1Chronicles 29:11 , "Yours, O
Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the
splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O Lord, is the
kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.


When we know who The Lord is and what Jesus Christ did for our sin, we are ready
to repent and be set free from all things, especially pride. If the Holy Spirit
has convicted you and identified an area of pride in you today, pray something
like this...

I exalt you O Lord!  You are above all, over all and creator of all things. In
you alone can we boast. Thank you for the cross of your son, Jesus Christ. Thank
you for your forgiveness when I fail.  Forgive me of my pride, help me to
identify it in my heart and dig it out from the roots. I need your word. Thank
you Father... Amen