THE PRICE OF PRIDE

THE PRICE OF PRIDE

Do you know how many frantic believers have uttered these words? "Please don't ever let it get out, I would be ruined if it did!" Pride goes to extreme lengths to cover all traces of sin. Each covering is made up of a lie, and each lie demands another to cover it. Pride can imprison a free soul in a single day, and chain up the spirit, with the fear of being discovered. It will cause you to avoid people and places, open you up to demon activity, and drive you to substance abuse. It makes you run when no one is chasing you, because "the wicked flee when no man pursues:" Proverbs 28:1 KJV

The reason pride goes before a fall, is due to its infrastructure. The entire infrastructure of pride is made up of lies! First pride lies to you! Then when you start believing it, you start lying to yourself, and then to others, and finally to Me. The first sign that you are believing pride's lie is when you begin to "think of yourself more highly than you ought to think; instead of thinking soberly, realizing that I have dealt to every man the same measure of faith." Romans 12:3 KJV

This may seem so small but it's the greatest weapon in the enemy arsenal! More dedicated believers are taken down with this innocent looking weapon than any other. Right at the edge of the pride cliff, is a sign that reads, YOU CAN DO NO WRONG! 

Then pride makes you lie to others, thousands of unspoken lies, pretending you are something that your not! How you talk at church differs far from how you talk at home or at work!  The things you think, are a million miles from what you display to others. When people discover the both you's, you make excuses and avoid them from then on, as if they did something wrong. 

Pride makes you lie to Me, telling Me how righteous you are, listing all the good and leaving out the bad and the ugly, as if you were dealing with a man! Pride eventually elevates everyone to the place where they are their own king and "every man does that which was right in his own eyes." Judges 17:6 KJV Now you know why "pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18 KJV What's right in your eyes will not be right in someone else's and eventually someone will bring you down because your right, has done them wrong! 

So here is the simple kingdom solution, as long as you are walking on planet earth, keep "humbling yourself as a little child, and you will be one of the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:4 KJV If you sin, don't hide it and make everyone think you are more holy than everyone else! I see everything, so simply, "confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray also for one another, that you may be healed and restored to a spiritual tone of mind and heart. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available dynamic in its working." James 5:16 AMP

 

You may say this is so basic, everyone knows about pride, but if this were the case, why are the humble out numbered a hundred to one? All unconfessed sin is buried under pride and unconfessed sin is not covered by My blood! 1 John 1:8-10 

If you are having a hard time dealing with your pride and what people might think, try a little Godly fear and keep this in front of you: "Fear not them which can ruin you or even kill your body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Me the one who sees and knows everything you do, which is able to destroy both your soul and body in hell." Matthew 10:28