My name is Pride. I am a Cheater.

Hello Friends.
I hope you all had a great new year! Through the first week of the New Year God has been showing me so much that I literally find it hard to even put into words. (So hang in there through my brain farts.)

I have been convicted to seek and just LISTEN to God. Whether or not I feel like He is listening or responding. Through this God has really shown me my selfishness and how bad of a friend I have been to certain people. For a short time I began to focus on my own needs and if I was having fun. A few days later the Lord gave me a wake up call. A friend of mine wanted to discuss something and I just pushed them off. Later that day God just put it on my heart how selfish I was being. I was able to apologize for my actions and truly believe that they forgave me but that does not justify my actions. My selfishness and cold heart was revealed to me. My eyes were open. What did my friend do to deserve this? NOTHING. They have been nothing but a phenomenal blessing in my life and I chose to be a jerk. And because of my own stupidity I may have lost someone really important in my life.

With all of this being said...I am not trying to have a pity party, but rather to ask you. Who are you taking for granite? Who has God put specifically in your life to speak truth and love and you are just pushing them off like it is nothing. God used this person to build me up and us them as an instrument in my life to help me heal at a really rough patch in my faith. And I am forever grateful. I just wish I would have realized it sooner.

Don't let selfishness and pride take over your heart friends. Through this journey God has taken me through I found this iin an old Bible Study lesson I had gone through. God is good, what a great reminder of what pride can do...

My name is Pride. I am a Cheater.

I cheat you of your God-given destiny-because you demand your own way.

I cheat you of contentment-because you "deserve better then this".

I cheat you of knowledge-because you already know it all.

I cheat you of healing-because you're too full of me to forgive.

I cheat you of holiness-because you refuse to admit when you're wrong.

I cheat you of vision-because you'd rather look in the mirror then out the window.

I cheat you of genuine friendship- because nobodies going to know the real you.

I cheat you of love-because real romance demands sacrifice.

I cheat you of greatness of heaven- because you refuse to wash another's feet on earth.

I cheat you of God's glory-because I convince you to seek your own.

My name is PRIDE.

You like me because you think I'm always looking out for you. Untrue. I am looking out to make a fool out of you. God has so much for you, I admit, but don't worry...if you stick with me, you'll never know