"Good morning! Today there will be many people that you will meet who are driven recklessly by their pride. The worst part of this is to watch some of the things people will be proud about. Someone once said: "We should be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame." But these who become proud of what otherwise they should be ashamed of, you realize how a persons perspectives can be terribly warped in this life. I don't say this to sound judgmental, but rather I'm pointing it out to show just how messed up our thinking can get if we don't have some reliable source within our life to help us see this when it happens to us.
There is a great deal of absorbent time and technique that is worked on by those wishing to embellish upon what they want others to think about them though much of it is either stretched or completely false. These who practice such absurdities can't help but live and act in contradictory ways to what they attempt to convey to others. A person can never rise above the level of what they store up in their heart. This is why many people become proud of what any sane person would be ashamed of. In other words, their debilitating actions bring such ruin to their large boasting, and thereby, they try to deflect their embarrassment for not living up to it by becoming belligerently proud as if that really fools anyone. If it does anything, it shows just how much of a fool they have become.
A life lived openly and transparent will be your best indicator to how your words and your actions are in harmony or not. When these are different from each other, than you can be assured that you have traveled down a fools path. How others see you can give some insight to how you are coming across to the other person; but equally or possibly more importantly, is how you see yourself and whether you are staying true to it. It is here that many live and speak in double talk. Boasting is a sure sign that pride is growing, and if it is not plucked up soon enough, it will blossom into something that you blindly fall in love with and think that it is some great attribute, while others will find it repulsively disgusting. Even if there are things that you could boast in, DON'T!!!
Let your life be lived in such a way, that it will be others who will do the boasting, but you stay clear of it. If you don't, you might possibly fall in love with what you boast about even if it has truth to it, but that boasting will rob its purity from the eyes of others and thus become contaminated. Boasting becomes a demon that follows you around destroying your relationships, and other opportunities in life. Boasting has destroyed great gifts from God to the world, all because these folks fell in love with their own gifts, and therefore, they withheld them from those who were meant to receive them. Boasting, whether it is true or false, does the same damage either way. What's worse, is once you start, it's hard to quit, and oh how much it pollutes ones image in the eyes of the beholder." ~Dad~
If I wanted to boast, I would be no fool in doing so, because I would be telling the truth. But I won’t do it, because I don’t want anyone to give me credit BEYOND WHAT THEY CAN SEE IN MY LIFE OR HEAR IN MY MESSAGE, even though I have received such wonderful revelations from God. So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud. (2 Corinthians 12:6, 7 NLT) |
