Pride and Selfishness
Not to be confused with the popular novel by Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. This story is the story of my life, it is less about high class society and more about what happens when we take our eyes off of God and start looking into our own hearts for direction.
Pride and selfishness rears its ugly head time after time in my life. Sure, I am human, the flesh starts to take over, but honestly I don't try very hard to stop it. The saying "misery loves company" could not be more true! I have hurt a lot of people in my life by being selfish toward them and being too prideful to admit that I was wrong.
Satan tries his very hardest to remove the beauty from this world, one way that I think he does this is by removing the love we have for one another. I have looked back and a major part of the pains in my life have been caused almost exclusively by pride and selfishness. Now, this is not easy for me to admit, especially to any person that happens to read this. Part of my search for true beauty, though, is being vulnerable and REAL. I am constantly challenged by what a noble wife and woman (since I'm not a wife) should be in the context of Proverbs 31.
The pride and selfishness in my life has caused me to hurt those closest to me, the ones that love me the most. I know that moving forward in my quest for true beauty these are areas I need to work on. Proverbs 31, among other Bible passages, will be my guide. After all, no one knows true beauty more than the one who created it. God is the only way that I will get rid of these boundaries in my life. Only then, when I put my FULL faith and trust solely in Him, will I find what it means to be truly beautiful.
Pride and selfishness rears its ugly head time after time in my life. Sure, I am human, the flesh starts to take over, but honestly I don't try very hard to stop it. The saying "misery loves company" could not be more true! I have hurt a lot of people in my life by being selfish toward them and being too prideful to admit that I was wrong.
Satan tries his very hardest to remove the beauty from this world, one way that I think he does this is by removing the love we have for one another. I have looked back and a major part of the pains in my life have been caused almost exclusively by pride and selfishness. Now, this is not easy for me to admit, especially to any person that happens to read this. Part of my search for true beauty, though, is being vulnerable and REAL. I am constantly challenged by what a noble wife and woman (since I'm not a wife) should be in the context of Proverbs 31.
The pride and selfishness in my life has caused me to hurt those closest to me, the ones that love me the most. I know that moving forward in my quest for true beauty these are areas I need to work on. Proverbs 31, among other Bible passages, will be my guide. After all, no one knows true beauty more than the one who created it. God is the only way that I will get rid of these boundaries in my life. Only then, when I put my FULL faith and trust solely in Him, will I find what it means to be truly beautiful.
"She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue."
Proverbs 31:26 ESV
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