Prumility- Part II in a Series of Balances

Pride and Humility

How much more opposite can you get?

Take pride in the fact that you serve a great god and that He will take care of you, but do everything in humility.

Pride, such a deceptive feeling. It isn't a bad one until it works through our brains like sugar through our bodies. A little pride in who God has made you is, in my view, necessary. But the feeling is sweet like sugar and thus feels good and this leads so easily to over indulgence. Who could resist a big bowl of ice cream or a few pieces of their favorite pie (because one is never enough)? The temptation to eat the whole half gallon or entire pie is like the temptation that pride offers to take all the credit for who you are or what you have. It makes us forget the grace that was given to us. I don't know about you, but I believe in intelligent design. God made me who I am today.

To do everything in humility is to do everything knowing that you were given the opportunity, ability, and strength to be who you are or do what you do. It is to acknowledge the grace before you as the source of your being.

I will leave it at that, hoping that you understand grace enough to know what I am saying.