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Haughty


1Sam:2:3
Stop acting so proud and haughty
Don't speak with such arrogance
For the Lord is a God who knows what you have done
He will judge your actions.

Cambridge definition of haughty is - seeming to consider yourself better than any other. Even a worldly dictionary considers haughtiness as something of the heart, need not be overtly expressed. Yes when it gets expressed, you use the terms like arrogance, hubristic, disdainful and the like. But the root of it all is the pride of my heart.
I still remember myself as a schoolkid, trying to negate others opinion and to exert mine using the phrase "not like that". That was a norm in my life.
When we have conversations, we fail to listen and try to speak always (giving suggestions and solutions) because of pride.
We fail to receive corrections in the right sense because of our haughtiness and pride.
When others are being blessed, is there a tiny jealousy sprouting in your heart?
Our phones are filled with selfies. And we look for likes and shares and views and retweets and so on. All this because of pride and self love.
There is lack of dependance on God, we say my life, my rules.
Secret sins? My life, my pleasures, I want to enjoy.
Arrogance while driving, exertive to our juniors, rude to our children, taking for granted to our wives and husbands all due to pride.
So if we look at any act of man (good or bad), the root of it all is pride which comes out of self love. We have placed our own idols in our hearts.
Everything started in the garden of Eden as a result of pride too. I want to be like God.
Pro:16:18 Pride goes before a fall.

Phil:2:5-7
You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
Though He was God
He did not think of equality with God as something to cling to
Instead He gave up His divine privileges
He took the humble position of a slave
And was born as a human being.

Man's fallen nature is pride and self love. But God's nature is humility.

Phil:2:3
Be humble thinking of others better than yourselves. Don't look out only for your own interests.



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  1. Unknown29 May 2021 at 07:12

    Pride goes before a fall.
    Let's strive to be more and more like Jesus

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  2. Mathews Philip29 May 2021 at 07:13

    🙏

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  3. Anonymous29 May 2021 at 07:47

    Pride goes before fall...very true

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  4. KS29 May 2021 at 08:32

    🙏🙏

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  5. Unknown29 May 2021 at 08:51

    🙏🙏🙏🙏

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  6. Jessy29 May 2021 at 10:27

    Painfully true and truthfully disturbing ....Only way is to run towards the one and only Saviour... Cleanse me Lord!!!

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  7. Smita Itty 29 May 2021 at 13:37

    Yes The Lord who knows what I've done will judge me 🙏

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