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Topic: Pride (04/12/04)
TITLE: Make GOD the CAPTAIN By B Price 04/15/04 |
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One of the prideful things we do is to brag and take credit for things we have done, instead of giving the Lord the glory and honor that is due. We cannot do anything without Him. We need to let God be the captain of our ship. Instead, we want to brag and be the captain. Jesus said, "All things are possible thru Him." He didn’t say all things are possible thru us!
Why is it that we want to take the credit ourselves? I believe one of the reasons is, we don*t want to show our weakness to others. We feel that if we give someone else the credit we are admitting that we are weak. Not true! The truth is we are afraid that someone might not give us the credit for a project we have done. Isn’t this truly an issue of pride?
So many people don’t stop long enough to think what it does to others if we take the credit instead of giving the credit where it is due. So often, we don’t even care if someone else might feel bad because they didn’t get the proper credit. We just want to look good, and take the credit. Isn’t this pride? Yes, it is.
Since we are talking about pride, let’s look at another example and what it does. This one does a disservice to the Lord. We often build a "false" pride and do not allow others to know the needs we may have. We do this because we do not want others to know we are having problems because they would think this is a sign of weakness. The truth is we have a problem admitting our weakness because of pride.
What we need to realize is that we are all servants of the Lord. Sometimes the Lord wants us to meet the needs of others and sometimes he wants us to be the receivers of help. When we are to be the receivers, we need to allow people to help us or else they are missing an opportunity for a blessing. In return, our weakness can bring about fellowship with others thus being a blessing for us. If we don*t allow them to help us, we are letting our pride get in the way. When this happens, we are dishonoring God.
We cannot give honor and glory to God when we become prideful. Satan is the one who benefits from our pride. We need to continually pray for our needs and the needs of others then remain open to the Lord*s will and wait for the opportunity to either serve or receive.
Some times our most effective ministry is to let go of our pride and just be honest with ourselves about our weaknesses. When we can do this, we honor the Lord, for he created us and loves us in spite of our weaknesses. Sometimes through our weaknesses, the Lord can do his most effective work on us. Where we are weak, we are strong in Him. We have to first give up our pride and allow the Lord to do his work. We need to allow Him to be the captain of our ship.
BPrice aka Harvest