The longer I’m alive… The longer I’m a daughter, a wife, a mother, a friend, a teacher, etc.…the more I realize that it doesn’t matter how right I am…or think I am. It doesn’t matter if people know I’m right. It doesn’t matter if I tell people how right I am.
What matters is Christ.
And the need to be “right” all the time is pride and is a heavy burden to carry. Enormous. This insatiable need to be right is something darker than we want to admit…it’s an effort to stand in as Jesus.
Yep. That’s why it’s so offensive when you come across it. Someone trying to be the Savior…who isn’t Jesus, is an abomination.
People who must always be right are insufferable. If you can’t know something, and keep it to yourself, when necessary, then you being right is a waste. A point of pride, not helpfulness. It’s left wisdom behind so you can feel better about being so right.
Have you met people who are determined to make sure you know exactly how much they know? The kind who always have to guide and direct you because they know better than anyone else on earth and are virtually unwilling to let others learn from their own mistakes?
When people act this way, not only do they retard
growth in others, but it’s such a burden to those around them.
We’ve all been guilty of this at some time…so I think we all need a reminder.
Today I encourage you to read and pray over the following scriptures…Go humbly before the Lord and let Him pour His grace over your heart.
Humility is the fear of the Lord; its wages are riches and honor and life. Proverbs 22:4
For though the Lord is high, He regards the lowly, but the haughty He knows from afar. Psalm 138:6
One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor. Proverbs 29:23
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. Matthew 23:12
But He gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” James 4:6
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