Wednesday, May 16, 2012

No Room For Pride


Pride goes before destruction,
    a haughty spirit before a fall. 

--Proverbs 16:18 (NIV)



Heavenly Father,

Help me to truly know my heart—and drive out any pride by replacing it with Your perfect love.

Show me those places in my heart where the ugliness of pride is hiding and remove it far from me, so that my words and actions would not bring injury and destruction to others and my “better-than-you” attitude would not lead to my own collapse and destruction.

I don’t want to think more highly of myself than I ought to—nor do I want to think of someone else as less than me, just because they have demonstrated their need for a Savior just as I do daily.

Help me to see others through Your eyes and with the same love and compassion You pour out on me.

Help me to truly know my heart—and drive out any pride by replacing it with Your perfect love.

In the name of Jesus, Amen.



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