It gets people all the time. Sweeps them out from under their feet. What am I saying? Well, let me put it this way; I've got this incredible friend. Loves God with all her heart, gets excited about Him, buys new christian books to read all the time, heck; she always made me feel a little bad about myself. But then a leader told her to stop praying over students. (She was a leader). And she felt like they shouldn't tell her to not pray over the students. But I can understand where they're coming from, and the reason they said so at that time. Yet, she didn't like it, didn't agree, and went to have a meeting with the leaders. She still didn't feel right about it. Well, things changed. She began to complain a lot, and then someone told her she was being prideful. That she had spiritual pride. And we fall into this trap a lot. We want to be 'holier than thou', we want to do things our way. We become more like the Pharisees instead of more like Jesus. Well, this friend didn't ask for help in a desperately hopeless situation she was going through- because of spiritual pride. She thought she could control it all, handle it all herself, and that she wasn't doing anything wrong. Well, now she's pregnant. Now, I'm not judging her at all, because I was the first person there for her, the one who prayed with her, cried with her, sang to her, read scriptures to her about forgiveness.. But she was too prideful to ask for help in her situation with a certain person, and soon things were out of control. She had told me months before this happened that God told her that her ministry couldn't go on until she got this person out of her life, and I told her I agreed. But when I brought that up to her recently, she said things were different now. God doesn't change. And we weren't put here to live our lives alone, struggling, with spiritual pride not daring to ask for help. We're to be united. To share in our struggles. There is no one perfect, apart from Jesus. So if someone judges you for pouring your heart and your struggles out to them, they have bigger problems than you do. I guess what I'm saying is; don't let pride be your downfall. That's what got satan thrown out of heaven. I think pride is one of the sins I detest the most. And it's the source of most other sins. So anyways, if you're struggling talk to someone. It's so simple to avoid so many problems. No one is above temptation, and no one can live life alone. We need each other.
Sorry for the random jumbled post.
~Christina
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