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Why so proud?


This is a straight-to-the-point blog post. Short. Spot on.

Looking down on other people because you're in such a privileged position.
Showing off a new car to friends and family.
Taking bathroom selfies with your new iPhone 12 (or 13) so the triple-zoom cameras can reveal your iPhone status.
Strutting around with your Jimmy Choos at work so everyone can see the red soles.
Always the braggadocious one at every single get-together.

Funny thing is, all these things are NOT pride. 

So then, what is pride?

Pride is anything that makes you disobey the word of God. God's word is clear about how we are to live as believers, but sometimes, the "little" knowledge we acquire puff us up to the extent that we fail to lean on the truest source of wisdom and life - Jesus.

Imagine this - all the wealth of knowledge the world has to offer pales in superiority when placed side by side with the source of the truest, life-giving knowledge. Just wow!

When you think your own ability is sufficient to get you through life, that's pride. When you accredit your successes to your wits, your degrees and all the feathers on your hat, that's pride. Simply put, when you go about believing, "don't need to pray, don't need to talk to God, I've got this", that is pride.

Why be proud when you can be humble? Why be proud when you can be strong in the spirit, full of the spirit of wisdom and full of grace?

And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." James 4:6 (NIV)

Live your life graciously; self-sufficiency is futility. God designed our spirit to depend on Him and to flourish in Him. The things you can do on your own cannot build you up in Him. There's a limit to what you can do apart from Him. There's a limit to what you can be outside of him. 

And so, I urge you, don't limit yourself to what you can be. That's pride. Launch into all that God wants you to be. That's grace.

That's it. That's the blog.


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