The Lord has been pressing on me for weeks to release my pride and give glory to God for all things. I have been very stubborn...like a teenager rebelling or a two-year old throwing a tantrum. I have ignored the pressing feeling of pride for weeks. Yet over and over again pride has been a topic all around me. It was getting hard to ignore. I finally had a revelation last week that a lot of things I have been doing have been to make myself feel better than others - Pride. My eyes were open to a few areas of my life where I was held back because I wanted to accomplish them for prideful reasons.
As I read through some verses on pride, I was shocked to find that pride was lumped in with such sins as murder and adultery. That was eye opening for me.
"For from within, out of the hear of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride and foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man". Mark 7:21-23 NKJ
Paul relates pride to the devil.
"not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condition as the devil."
1 Tim. 3:6 NKJ
Once again pride is lumped with "lusts of the flesh". Such things are of this world and not from our heavenly Father.
"For all that is in the world -- the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life -- is not of the Father but is of the world." 1 John 2:16 NKJ
Dear Lord, please let me give all things to you. All glory to You and set aside my pride. Let me do things for Your glory and not for my own. Amen.
