Dear brethren,
Pride has cost so many a lot in life, including their marriages, careers, businesses and so on. Despite all these negative impact of pride, people still strive to overcome it. But the Scripture cannot be broken because of human's refusal to heed to God's instruction not to be proud. The Bible tells us that God opposes the proud, Jame 4:6. So, no matter how hard we pray, give or sing praises to God and yet still proud, He will not accept us as we are only merely engaging in spiritual exercise which cannot yield our expected results.
Are you in the habit of bragging on how you are going to undo someone? Or in a habit of praising yourself even after successfully carrying out a joint task with your team mates, by saying, "I did it", "instead of saying we did it"? Or do you always want everyone to know that you rendered help to someone else? Just stop. These and more are acts of pride.
Here are just to mention but a few blessings that come to you when you obey God and humble yourself before Him. It makes one to prosper, gives happiness and offers healing. It prospers in the sense that, if one humbles himself enough to learn examples of other successful persons and applies the same in his life, makes that person prosper too. Likewise, happiness, one gains happiness by being humble enough to lean on God alone for help. It also offers healing because, when one is humble in heart, it is only pleasant words that proceed out of his mouth and according to Proverbs 16:18-27, pleasant words are healing to the bones.
Finally, the result of not obeying God is that He gives us over to the consequences of our own action (pride), which is destruction, Romans 1:24,26. (kudos to Nicky Gumbel)
Remain blessed,
Your beloved sister,
Ifeoma.
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