Once, a girl who was a big golf champion for her state went to a Christian school. A teacher told the other students to be nice to her because she was a new student. After all, they were Christians themselves.
The girls and one of the teachers invited her to be on their golf team, and she agreed to play. However, she didn’t like any of the golf teacher’s instructions because she already knew everything there was to know about golf—at least, it sure seemed so since she was the state golf champion.
Eventually, she discovered she would have a baby out of wedlock. This broke her pride, which led her to refuse to thank anyone for anything. Finally, she told her parents she was going to have a baby and that she was thinking about having an abortion.
Thankfully, she eventually got saved after losing some games. She became so humble that when recognized as the school golf team’s champion, she turned down the recognition and gave the award to someone else.
If we’re not careful, we can all have pride. It is the mother of all sins because it is the sin the Devil had in his heart that made God kick him out of heaven. Pride can keep us from getting into heaven if we’re not careful. It can slither into our hearts without us knowing it.
But we don’t need to feel condemned all the time. We can ask God to show us daily whether we have pride in our hearts. If we do, we can repent of whatever pride He shows us.
Don’t let pride ruin your life and service to God.
Darrell Waters loves Jesus and wants to please Him in all he says, thinks, and does. He is legally blind and disabled but feels that devotional writing is his calling in life. Darrell sings in the choir and also specials on a singers' list in Sunday services as well as on Wednesday nights.