Sometimes I can get so caught up in what God has called me to do that I leave him in the dust. I get so excited about a vision that he gave me that I don’t stop to let Him develop it. I get so wrapped up in the idea that I forget the One who first gave it to me.
My pride likes to leave God in the dust. To run at my own pace. To lean on my own understandings. In those moments I become such a fool.
The Psalmist says “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understandings.”
But I fool myself to think otherwise.
C.S. Lewis called it the ‘great sin’. He introduces it in this manner:
“There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else… There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others... it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”
Pride is a blind spot. We can’t see it. We don’t call it out on ourselves. We hear others call us out on it. Yesterday my great friend overheard a comment I made in a conversation and while he was making a joke about what I said, I walked away seeing my blind spot. There was pride creeping in and I didn’t see it coming.
As I lay my head to rest last night I prayed this prayer, “Lord, if pride ever sneaks up on me and I become its puppet, please remove me from whatever task it is that I have become so arrogant in. I am unfit for such a work when I leave You in the dust.”
May God continue to humble me and may I always have friends in my life who aren’t afraid to point out my blind spots.
My pride likes to leave God in the dust. To run at my own pace. To lean on my own understandings. In those moments I become such a fool.
The Psalmist says “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understandings.”
But I fool myself to think otherwise.
C.S. Lewis called it the ‘great sin’. He introduces it in this manner:
“There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else… There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others... it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”
Pride is a blind spot. We can’t see it. We don’t call it out on ourselves. We hear others call us out on it. Yesterday my great friend overheard a comment I made in a conversation and while he was making a joke about what I said, I walked away seeing my blind spot. There was pride creeping in and I didn’t see it coming.
As I lay my head to rest last night I prayed this prayer, “Lord, if pride ever sneaks up on me and I become its puppet, please remove me from whatever task it is that I have become so arrogant in. I am unfit for such a work when I leave You in the dust.”
May God continue to humble me and may I always have friends in my life who aren’t afraid to point out my blind spots.
really good reminder... love the prayer you prayed at the end... you're such a good writer luke!
Posted by: lindsey | October 23, 2009 at 02:49 PM