"For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me."
Isaiah 47:10
Independence is a good thing to learn in life... it helps us to learn self-reliance and not to lean too hard on others for things that we can learn to do for ourselves. However, we can definitely take it too far, in forgetting our need for the Lord or in believing that we are superior to or not in need of learning anything from other people.
Today, let's not allow wisdom and knowledge, or anything else, to make us imagine our own superiority, or trust in our own wickedness as though we are not known. Imagining that our lives are unwitnessed or that we don't affect the world around us can cause us to make some really poor prideful choices. Let's remember that God is there and always knows us, and every desire of our hearts. Let's work on our humility and our faithfulness to him, resisting pride and doing our best to not harm anyone... and when we have, let's do all we can to heal those wounds.
Isaiah 47:10
Independence is a good thing to learn in life... it helps us to learn self-reliance and not to lean too hard on others for things that we can learn to do for ourselves. However, we can definitely take it too far, in forgetting our need for the Lord or in believing that we are superior to or not in need of learning anything from other people.
Today, let's not allow wisdom and knowledge, or anything else, to make us imagine our own superiority, or trust in our own wickedness as though we are not known. Imagining that our lives are unwitnessed or that we don't affect the world around us can cause us to make some really poor prideful choices. Let's remember that God is there and always knows us, and every desire of our hearts. Let's work on our humility and our faithfulness to him, resisting pride and doing our best to not harm anyone... and when we have, let's do all we can to heal those wounds.
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