Conquering Pride

In this life that you live you will have to fight against pride. No one likes a person that is puffed up with pride. People who have low self-esteems often have one area in their life where they are proud and they try to impress everyone with how good they are in that area. There is a fine line between being happy with what you know and being full of pride. Pride is offensive to Me. It is true that God resists the proud. Often you will find people full of pride will be friends with each other. Some people gather together under the leadership of a prideful person who is controlling and bow to him and become clones of him.

When I was on earth, as you well know around to your way I came up against leaders of the Jewish people that were full of pride. These people had an outward appearance of everything righteous and holy and yet they were far from true righteousness. With their focus on self -righteousness  they weighed the people down with laws that were impossible for normal folk to obey. On many occasions I rebuked these leaders, both in private and in public. Many of My parables, those recorded in the Gospels and others that were not recorded spoke out against these oppressive leaders. They mocked Me, they tried to make Me slip with what I said and how I answered them, but I was meek and humble and they simply could not outwit the Holy Spirit in Me.

One way to fight pride in your life is to live in a spirit of thankfulness. Know and acknowledge that it was God that gave you your gifts and talents and your every success has been allowed by God. When you keep your focus on God, and you acknowledge Him with everything that you do that is praiseworthy than you will stay in an attitude of meekness and humility. When you come up against people with religious ideas and ideologies keep yourself in a spirit of humility and try not to  argue with them, simply bless them and speak to them from a position of love. When you act like this and you treat people with honour no matter how prideful they are, you may win some.