Swallow your Pride

Pride! I have always avoided this 5 letter word simply because I thought I didn't  "fit into its box". LOL funny, but by actually believing that, I didn't just "fit into its box" I was making my house a home in it! Growing up the only girl of 3 rowdy, brothers we were always finding things "wrong" with each other. Picking at one another's flaws and short comings and charging it to one another making it that siblings M-O! I was definitely apart of that lil game! Wagging my finger and judging them just as hard as they were me. Its funny you can always see the other persons flaws CRYSTAL CLEAR but when you examine yourself its like looking in to a diamond with 'inclusions' you all of a sudden for some reason can't see through as clear. I remember our little times of judgment like it was yesterday. I would be SO defensive and looking back a lot of what they were saying was sooo true
:( but I fought it and defended it tooth and nail. I was (and sometimes still am) that person that always had an excuse for everything for some reason I just couldn't own up to my short comings. Looking back on it I guess I was scared that if I showed how human I was people would actually believe it! Haha! As I grew up I later discovered that wasn't called "being defensive" it was called PRIDE! Yep big fat ugly PRIDE. And I was so full of it! While in church this past Sunday morning my pastor titled our message The Greatest Among You! We discussed a popular scenario where pride was the biggest perpetrator. The story of Peter and his problem with pride in the book of Luke. Peter did not take the time to truly examine himself and was so distracted with trying to prove himself he became so prideful and arrogant in the process. By doing this it caused him to make (which I'm sure) the HUGEST mistake in his entire life....and that's deny Jesus. I must say I can relate to Peter in a lot of ways. I have found myself trying so hard to prove to everyone that I am NOT who they say I am, and completely denying who I really am in turn resulting in my lifting up and then crashing down falling in my pride! Whew!! that is exhausting lol. After this message I truly realized just how Absolutely Prideful I have been! As tears welled up in my eyes I knew I needed to change. I also realized my pride all these years had manifested into some self righteousness as well. (I'm a total mess I know, lol but you are too lol.)  This is where Christ comes in. I am learning as I 'swallow more of my pride' examine myself, esteem others higher than myself, decrease and not allow myself to be totally wrecked and hindered by others opinions my pride starts to quickly melt away. As a Christian there is absolutely NO room for pride, arrogance and self righteousness. We have all fallen short of Gods glory and we are all equals none of us have the right to forget, and I never want to. Below is a scripture from Sundays wonderful sermon!

-Galatians 6:2-4 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. (3) For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.(4) But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.


-Sunday's Best