A quick blurb on Pride...
IF YOU WANT TO GET CLOSE TO GOD.. IF YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO ABIDE IN HIS SPIRIT AND HAVE HIS SPIRIT ABIDE IN YOU.. IF YOU WANT TO HAVE THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO HELP YOU FOLLOW HIS COMMANDMENTS TO PROVE YOUR LOVE FOR HIM (JOHN 14), IF YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE EVERYTHING GOD HAS PURPOSED IN YOUR LIFE, IF YOU WANT TO HAVE PEACE THAT SURPASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING (PHIL 4:7).... THEN HUMBLE YOURSELF TO GOD AND SEEK HIM OUT... IT SEEMS TRIVIAL AND SIMPLE BUT GOD SAYS... JAMES 4:3-10... "... GOD RESISTETH THE PROUD, BUT GIVETH GRACE UNTO THE HUMBLE.. SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD. RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU. DRAW NIGH TO GOD AND HE WILL DRAW NIGH TO YOU. CLEANSE... PURIFY... 10: HUMBLE YOURSELVES IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND HE SHALL LIFT YOU UP." UNDERSTAND THAT PRIDE IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF EVERYTHING EVIL... I JOHN 2: 15-16 ( FOR ALL THAT IS IN THIS WORLD- THE LUST OF THE FLESH AND EYES, BUT IT IS THE PRIDE OF LIFE THAT PUTS THEM BOTH INTO ACTION!!) PRIDE IS WHAT MAKES US NOT FOLLOW GOD BECAUSE IT ALLOWS US TO DO OUR WILL INSTEAD OF HIS... PRIDE ALLOWS US TO SEEK OUT OUR LUST (OF THE FLESH AND EYES). PRIDE IS THE ANTI-LOVE; FOR EVERYTHING THAT LOVE IS IN I CORIN 13 PRIDE IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE... THINK OF WHY LUCIFER BECAME THE DEVIL AND WAS KICKED OUT OF HEAVEN... it was Pride.
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Awesome blog... and I would also like to co-sign with Matthew 5:5 "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."
The are those who are gentle and lowly and humble; in other words, the opposite of being prideful. And, Jesus Himself said that these people are one - blessed, and two - will inherit the earth.
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