Introduction: Why Pride?
Pride.
If I have learned anything in the last 10 months, it's a million things about pride. We ALL struggle with it to some degree; that's the frightening part. We all struggle with it, but do we all know that? Let me sum it up to you real brief:
It's a disease. It's a germ. It's an annoyance. An addiction. A drug. A mask. A lie.
It's anything you want to believe. It's anything except the truth. It knows you best. It preys on your weaknesses. It's discrete, but it's huge. It's subtle, but it's loud.
It destroys. It burns and aches and rips.
Pride is the one thing that can make you feel amazing and make you feel like you could throw up in a matter of minutes. Pride is the thing that can build a box of fantasies all around you until you forget what life actually is and it has completely consumed you.
Let me come out right now before you read any further and make sure you know that I will be the first to own up to my pride. It's already controlled too much of my life, but even after finding it, crushing it, and giving it over to God, it is still something that I do and will wrestle with for the rest of my life. It will always be there...
Through a whole lot of pain, I've learned so much about this infection that got hold of my life somewhere in the last few years. And with all this knowledge, something just feels wrong if I don't take the opportunity to share what I've learned with at least one person. If just one person who reads these posts can learn something and prevent the same experiences that I had in their own life, then this blog would have served its purpose. There is so much to pride that nobody will ever understand and it's different and unique to each and every person that struggles with it, but I figure that any little bit that you can learn from other people's battles can help prevent the same battles in your own life.
Know that for each and every person that reads this, you are being prayed for. Maybe you're reading this just because you feel obligated, you're curious to see if I even have half a brain, or you really are interested in how pride may have or is already affecting your own life; but nonetheless, I am praying for you. I pray that you would seek out where pride may have rooted itself in your own lives, that you are open to hearing the prompting of the Holy Spirit as it reveals to you pride's marksmanship in your life, and that you are willing to seek help to deal with it. No one was called to be a Christian on their own, and no one can EVER fight pride alone.
If I have learned anything in the last 10 months, it's a million things about pride. We ALL struggle with it to some degree; that's the frightening part. We all struggle with it, but do we all know that? Let me sum it up to you real brief:
It's a disease. It's a germ. It's an annoyance. An addiction. A drug. A mask. A lie.
It's anything you want to believe. It's anything except the truth. It knows you best. It preys on your weaknesses. It's discrete, but it's huge. It's subtle, but it's loud.
It destroys. It burns and aches and rips.
Pride is the one thing that can make you feel amazing and make you feel like you could throw up in a matter of minutes. Pride is the thing that can build a box of fantasies all around you until you forget what life actually is and it has completely consumed you.
Let me come out right now before you read any further and make sure you know that I will be the first to own up to my pride. It's already controlled too much of my life, but even after finding it, crushing it, and giving it over to God, it is still something that I do and will wrestle with for the rest of my life. It will always be there...
Through a whole lot of pain, I've learned so much about this infection that got hold of my life somewhere in the last few years. And with all this knowledge, something just feels wrong if I don't take the opportunity to share what I've learned with at least one person. If just one person who reads these posts can learn something and prevent the same experiences that I had in their own life, then this blog would have served its purpose. There is so much to pride that nobody will ever understand and it's different and unique to each and every person that struggles with it, but I figure that any little bit that you can learn from other people's battles can help prevent the same battles in your own life.
Know that for each and every person that reads this, you are being prayed for. Maybe you're reading this just because you feel obligated, you're curious to see if I even have half a brain, or you really are interested in how pride may have or is already affecting your own life; but nonetheless, I am praying for you. I pray that you would seek out where pride may have rooted itself in your own lives, that you are open to hearing the prompting of the Holy Spirit as it reveals to you pride's marksmanship in your life, and that you are willing to seek help to deal with it. No one was called to be a Christian on their own, and no one can EVER fight pride alone.
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