"The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?"
Obadiah 1:3
Pride gets us into a lot of trouble in life. Now, I'm not condemning a healthy sense of self-worth, or saying that we should hate ourselves. I think pride is different than that. It's more when we start thinking that we are better than other people, and even more dangerously, smarter or more important than God. Sounds kind of silly out of context, but I think we unfortunately make those valuations pretty often when we choose to do our own thing rather than what God asks.
Today, let's love other people as ourselves, remembering that they are as important as we are, and that we should treat them kindly and know that they are worthwhile and have something to offer the world, just as we do. And with God, let's remember that God is infinitely more wise than we are, and take the opportunity that we have to learn from him, rather than walking away because we think we know better. We really, really don't. Better to humbly approach God and find out that he exists and learn to listen to him and learn from him now than to find out later, decieving ourselves because we think we know better, and have to learn humility a harder way. :)
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