Surrender the Pride

Recently I was watching a new Disney show with the kids. One of the characters is an arrogant actor who enjoys putting down other performers on other shows. One of his statements caught me, and I can't let go.

"It's not that I'm better than you, I'm just different. In a better kind of way."

God is speaking a lot to me about pride. There is the arrogant pride like the example above. Anyone need to surrender to that? 

Perhaps you still have a job and someone else in your department was let go. In your head are you reasoning why you were blessed to stay?  In your family growing up did it appear like you had a bit of favor with your parents or a teacher when others did not? Did it puff you up, even just a little?

I know I need to improve on this, even if I keep those thoughts to myself, they are still audible and accountable to God.  A new natural season starts this month with spring.  Anyone care to join me in starting a new season in Christ by surrendering arrogant pride?

I wish that were the only kind of pride to surrender.  Has anyone offered to lend you a hand, a hand that you needed, and you refused it? I'm guilty as charged. What I'm learning is the older I get, the more I need to let go of myself.  We are the body of Christ, and we need each other.  Kind of like the movie Rocky, his declaration about marriage rings true for Christian relationships as well:

    "I got gaps and Adrian's got gaps.Together, we got no gaps."

If you are overwhelmed and a person, a family, a ministry or organization comes forward, prayerfully consider accepting that meal, those clothes.  In return, do the same for someone else.

This month the group Finding Freedom Through Surrender at Christian Women Take Root will be discussing surrendering pride. If you are a Christian woman you're invited to check the site out and join us in this discussion, as well as starting your own.

Pride, let's surrender it to the Lord today!

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.  (Proverbs 16:18, NIV)