what does pride look like, sound like?
1. I'm better than you - "Why are you not doing this, doing that to be better so that you can be like me?"
2. I can spot the speck in the eyes of others from miles but fail to see the log in my own eyes - "another person's flaws always seemed more serious, more detrimental, more sinful than mine"
3. I am doing ministry right and you are doing it wrong - "how come you are not doing this/doing that?"
Pride creeps into our lives so subtly that we never realize until we look deep inside our hearts. Many gathered around the woman who was caught in adultery, dragged to the streets and demanded a verdict from Jesus. They look so right, so honorable in front of the woman in shame. Yet Jesus spoke one sentence and all left one by one. "He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." To Jesus, Sin is Sin. No lesser sin, no greater sin. Adultery is sin, lying is sin, looking at a woman/man lustfully is sin...
We will always look so right when we compare ourselves with someone whose sin is more glaring, more exposed. But in the eyes of Jesus, sin is sin regardless.
Those who think they were MOST RELIGIOUS in Jesus' time was the MOST REJECTED. Don't let religion blind us, making us think of ourselves more pious than we ought to be.
Pride kills.
1. I'm better than you - "Why are you not doing this, doing that to be better so that you can be like me?"
2. I can spot the speck in the eyes of others from miles but fail to see the log in my own eyes - "another person's flaws always seemed more serious, more detrimental, more sinful than mine"
3. I am doing ministry right and you are doing it wrong - "how come you are not doing this/doing that?"
Pride creeps into our lives so subtly that we never realize until we look deep inside our hearts. Many gathered around the woman who was caught in adultery, dragged to the streets and demanded a verdict from Jesus. They look so right, so honorable in front of the woman in shame. Yet Jesus spoke one sentence and all left one by one. "He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." To Jesus, Sin is Sin. No lesser sin, no greater sin. Adultery is sin, lying is sin, looking at a woman/man lustfully is sin...
We will always look so right when we compare ourselves with someone whose sin is more glaring, more exposed. But in the eyes of Jesus, sin is sin regardless.
Those who think they were MOST RELIGIOUS in Jesus' time was the MOST REJECTED. Don't let religion blind us, making us think of ourselves more pious than we ought to be.
Pride kills.
Comments
glad that God is making you aware, take it one step at a time bro.