Today is Cyber Monday and I am running a special on Legacy Bible study workbooks all throughout December. Beginning today, if you purchase a From the Trash Pile to the Treasure Chest: Creating a Godly Legacy workbook from me (through my website), you can take advantage of my BOGO special. Buy One, Get One 30% off.
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Well, what do you know? Here it is December! We have journeyed through a whole of the Word this year, and I hope we have tucked a heaping helping of it into our hearts. God promised that His Word would never return void, and that it would always accomplish its purpose. So, I claim that promise over these Heart Notes posts. Although the comments are few on them, I believe that God has used them in some hearts and lives in 2014.
Have any of these Heart Notes posts and/or printables impacted you this year? Were you able to memorize some of the verses? If so, how has the Lord used those verses in your life in 2014? It would be a blessing to hear from you, either in the comments section or via email.
Now, let’s get on to today’s printable and verse. The December FREE printable is festive and bright, and I hope you will print it off and enjoy it. Here it is:
Pride will destroy a person; a proud attitude leads to ruin. Proverbs 16:18 (NCV)
Let’s begin at the beginning~~with a definition of the word ‘pride’. For that we will turn to our friend, Webster. Consider it, please.
a feeling that you respect yourself and deserve to be respected by other people
a feeling that you are more important or better than other people
a feeling of happiness that you get when you or someone you know does something good, difficult, etc.
Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 29 Nov. 2014. <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pride>.
Definitions #1 and #2 are where the wheels come off the wagon in most of our lives, although #3 can also get us into trouble. However, let’s focus on #1 and #2 for today.
Now that we have defined pride, let’s go back to our verse for this week and plug in those definitions. I think it will be instructive to us.
Pride~~~a feeling that you respect yourself and deserve to be respected by other people~~~will destroy a person; a proud attitude leads to ruin.
Perhaps the place we get in trouble here is that we feel we DESERVE to be respected.
Pride~~~a feeling that you are more important or better than other people~~~will destroy a person; a proud attitude leads to ruin.
Umm, ouch!
I am greatly convicted by today’s exercise in plugging the definition of a word into a verse of Scripture. I have been guilty of pride so often in my life. That is why I consistently ask the Lord to show me any pride that hides in my heart. Just when I think I am free of pride, the Holy Spirit sweeps out a corner of my heart, and finds a crumb of pride there. I want to be faithful to do away with ALL pride in my life, because I want a consistently intimate relationship with Jesus.
Thanks for reading today, friends.
