Pride- Quick Quip- 3/26/24

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Hello. I actually was hospitalized recently. Had not had that happen again in a long while!

Pride I feel is the deadliest of all sins. Might even be more than the fellow ones with this considered those deeply evil sins. It affects politics, public events, movies, television, newspapers, daily life especially ones who feel that they “know it all.”

It affects people who say they are atheist. Ask a non-believer “When did you stop believing in God?” and there is a chance they might tell you. And a lot of times that thought is “If God is so loving He wouldn’t–” fill in the blank. They still believe but they want to turn from Him.

An atheist a lot of times is like a father and child. The child being the subject here.

As this person they might be mad at something they know is wrong and told so and turn away from their dad. They might even be upset that what they need to do is different from what they want to do! And in all of this, they could become prideful and want to hurt the father who has nothing but love for them and say, “I have no father.”

Pride does more than just make a person think they have no father. It forsakes the heart, makes self-intelligence more important than truth from the word the Bible. It makes people believers who should iron and iron each other shaping each other for the truth and the one person in the supposed discussion says “Well this is true to me. That’s all I have to say.” Then the talking is over. The End.

I believe it can make a person go to a church, think they are a real believer, then be so sure that they would die for the truth. Then they pass away and they end up in the trial of the White Throne judgment.

Because “all they did” was claim that their truth that they were demanding was the real truth!

Sad quip but true.

Waters Do Not Fail

For Isaiah You guided continually

As He looked to Your will, You abided still

While he walked he found the way to go in You

As His footsteps found He was through the Lord bound

He spoke of what had yet to come

He told tales unheard, would in future some

Would experience close, be still

Because those words were not hid Jesus would seek God’s Will

If he felt troubled, Lord guided

His hope like rain poured as Isaiah confided

Was a “garden” to His love

A spring welled of hope, a never give up “dove”

And the verse says He restores

Brings up greatness through the Lord’s compassion implores

Like waters that do not fail.

(Note: This was based off of Isaiah 58:11, my devotion today)