January 9, 2013

Pride

The truth is always hard to swallow if your choking on your pride stay humble.

I heard someone say; “I am proud of my humility.” That’s funny; I don’t care where you are. He was joking, but there is a lot of truth in the statement. When you have too much pride, then you will have a hard time handling the truth. The easiest way to handle the truth is to stay humble. I have had many battles with pride and lost them all. The only way to defeat pride is to remain humble. A good test of this is; can you handle the truth? If you can hear the truth about yourself and not get angry or upset, then chances are you are humble. When you don’t handle truth well, then pride is alive and well in you. As you start off the new year, do a pride check. Make sure you can take truth and are humble. Make it a lifestyle of getting pride out of your system. Pride will do nothing but take you down. The Bible says that pride comes before a major fall. Nearly every time a person has a major character failure; they were prideful. Be careful in the area of pride. Work on being humble today. Is there any areas in your life that you are prideful?