Pride

The past few mornings, my Bible study has been dealing with pride. I have heard many sermons on pride, as I'm sure you have too. In the past whenever I was hearing about pride or reading about pride, I honestly thought... Yeah I deal with that sometimes, but I'm not a prideful person. In fact, I'm the opposite. My self esteem is high enough for me to be prideful.

Sound of game show buzzer!!!! Big Fat Wrong!!!

God has shown me that my past thoughts just aren't true. I look at them now and think, how prideful of me to think I'm not a prideful person. It is actually laughable now.

You see pride doesn't just mean thinking highly of yourself. It is more than thinking you are better than someone else.

Pride is anything that gets in the way of you glorifying God. And that includes low self esteem, pity parties. I had just never thought of it that way. But now I know that when I'm throwing myself a big pity party and feeling sorry for myself I'm focused on ME not God. That's pride.

I'm pretty sure being a truly humble person isn't an easy thing. It is something I figure I will be working on for the rest of my life. But I'm okay with that, because something tells me God is going to teach me a lot on this journey. He has already reminded me that He is the one who created everything and without Him, nothing is created (John 1:3). That in itself is humbling. He did it all and just by speaking it. I pray that everyday I am reminded of who my God is!