PRIDE DESTROYS, BUT HUMILITY UPLIFTS

 

 

 

 

Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ! Here is the word for your meditation and prayer.

The tittle of my message is: " PRIDE DESTROYS, BUT HUMILITY UPLIFTS" The Living Bible in Proverbs 29:23 says, "Pride ends in a fall, while humility brings honor."

 

Pride is self-destructive, but humility promotes and elevates a person.

Many people who have suddenly become popular and pompous, attract fictitious recognition and temporary honour. They suddenly fall and disappear from the limelight.

Their downfall is usually thunderous and shameful, because of pride! But genuine kind and humble people, build ladders for divine elevation and promotion. Humble people build lasting glory and recognition.

 

The Bible says, " Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up." ( James 4:10)   The Living Bible in Psalm 73:3-28 also says,  "For I was envious of the prosperity of the proud and wicked. Yes, all through life their road is smooth! They grow sleek and fat. They aren’t always in trouble and plagued with problems like everyone else, so their pride sparkles like a jeweled necklace, and their clothing is woven of cruelty! These fat cats have everything their hearts could ever wish for! They scoff at God and threaten his people. How proudly they speak! They boast against the very heavens, and their words strut through the earth. And so God’s people are dismayed and confused and drink it all in. “Does God realize what is going on?” they ask. “Look at these men of arrogance; they never have to lift a finger—theirs is a life of ease; and all the time their riches multiply.” Have I been wasting my time? Why take the trouble to be pure? All I get out of it is trouble and woe—every day and all day long! If I had really said that, I would have been a traitor to your people. Yet it is so hard to explain it—this prosperity of those who hate the Lord. Then one day I went into God’s sanctuary to meditate and thought about the future of these evil men. What a slippery path they are on—suddenly God will send them sliding over the edge of the cliff and down to their destruction: an instant end to all their happiness, an eternity of terror. Their present life is only a dream! They will awaken to the truth as one awakens from a dream of things that never really were! When I saw this, what turmoil filled my heart! I saw myself so stupid and so ignorant; I must seem like an animal to you, O God. But even so, you love me! You are holding my right hand! You will keep on guiding me all my life with your wisdom and counsel, and afterwards receive me into the glories of heaven! Whom have I in heaven but you? And I desire no one on earth as much as you! My health fails; my spirits droop, yet God remains! He is the strength of my heart; he is mine forever! But those refusing to worship God will perish, for he destroys those serving other gods. But as for me, I get as close to him as I can! I have chosen him, and I will tell everyone about the wonderful ways he rescues me."

 

The scripture in Psalm 73 is a proof and evidence for the fall of those who live lost and wild lives, full of pride and ungodly acts.

 

Let us live according to the will of God in humility and peace.

Though the humble may fall due to some trials and tribulations, their fall is usually temporary. They are quickly rescued and uplifted to a place of honour and integrity.

 

The Living Bible in Micah 7:7-10 also says, "As for me, I look to the Lord for his help; I wait for God to save me; he will hear me. Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy, for though I fall, I will rise again! When I sit in darkness, the Lord himself will be my Light. I will be patient while the Lord punishes me, for I have sinned against him; then he will defend me from my enemies and punish them for all the evil they have done to me. God will bring me out of my darkness into the light, and I will see his goodness. Then my enemy will see that God is for me and be ashamed for taunting, “Where is that God of yours?” Now with my own eyes I see them trampled down like mud in the street."

 

Therefore let us endeavour to fight the good fight of faith, by living humble and peaceful lives. (1 Timothy 6:12, 2 Timothy 4:7-8, Hebrews 12:14, Philippians 4:6-7)

Remember, "Pride destroys, but Humility uplifts" 

 

 

May God richly bless you!                 

 

 

Evangelist Fanuel Masikati

Email:divinerevelations7@gmail.com