Kill Pride!

Life has thrown a curveball straight at you – you’ve been hit. And you’ve been hit hard.

The impact of events stuns you and begins to expose areas long hidden and buried beneath the façade you project not only to others but to yourself too. You’ve been living in denial, and you did not know the extent of it. You’re shocked at how you’ve responded. Your circumstances now reveal deeply hidden heart sentiments that you believed you’d overcome.

The burying of these heart attitudes was so skillfully accomplished – you deceived yourself. Now, you don’t like what you see. You want to hide – hide from yourself! You look for reasons to justify your behaviors – you know it would be easier to deny what you have learned about yourself. But, you know you can’t.

How did this happen? How did it happen to you?

Could it be pride?

Have you considered a bold examination of your heart, a critical look at the root of your behavior? What do you really think about who and what you are, and what you now know is your sin. Denied and buried – hidden, sinful, prideful thoughts. The ones you buried rather than boldly holding yourself accountable for – you know the ones – they fleeted through your thoughts, and you did not call them what they were – sin. You did not think the truth would find you out. It did.

Or, you may deny this, you may want to walk away from your reality – this cannot be you! Possibly, you are searching your heart for explanations to defend yourself and distance yourself from the struggle your soul is now in.

But, you can’t. It’s time to allow the Word to examine the recesses and depths of your heart. It’s time to repent. He knows your heart.

• Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall (Proverbs 16:18).

• One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor (Proverb 29:23).

• The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds (Jeremiah 17:9-10).

• For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account (Hebrews 4:12-13).

• LORD, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence (Psalm 139:1-7).

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