Have you had your JOY JUICE today? Humbly, yet faithfully, drink in the joy of Jesus and be on guard against PRIDE!
Throughout Scripture we are told about the
consequences of pride. Proverbs 16:18-19 tells us that “pride goes
before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Better to be lowly in
spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud.” That's just one of the many passages in the Bible that warns us about pride.
A prideful
attitude does nothing to build up and edify.
Just the opposite is true. Pride keeps people from humbling themselves
before God and realizing their need for salvation. Pride in children keeps
parents from seeing their children's faults and disciplining and correcting
them to make them better. Pride in self keeps us selfish and self-centered. Only
God knows how many nations, marriages, families, churches, businesses, lives have been wrecked by pride.
Jesus’s example shows us what to do to avoid the dangers of sinful pride. Philippians 2:5-7
says,
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
In other words, we should put away selfish pride and drink the JOY JUICE of Jesus with an humble attitude!
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