Proverbs 16:18 (NKJV) 18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride is a terrible thing and sometimes we can be blinded and not realize we’re walking in it.
We were invited out to dinner after a church service one day. We decided we were going to pay for everyone’s dinner. After dinner was over we went up to the cashier and took care of the bill without anyone else knowing what we had done.
We didn’t think anything of it at first. But later, after the bill never came to the table and everyone was wondering why, we noticed that the Pastor who had invited us to dinner had a disappointed look on his face, only to find out that he had wanted to be the one to pay for our dinner. Because of our pride, we ruined something good that he wanted to do for us.
On the ride home afterward, the Holy Spirit spoke one word to us; pretentious.
We’d heard the word before but never paid much attention to what it meant. So the moment we got home, we looked it up, just to be sure.
Pretentious: having or showing the unpleasant quality of people who want to be regarded as more impressive, successful, or important than they really are.
Ouch. We felt terrible. We knew it was not our place to do what we did. We gave pride a place that day.
How do we watch out for pride? We watch our actions.
It’s up to us to recognize it, and to shut it down by making a change in our actions. Or we can expect destruction to come.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808
401-315-0902
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