Hello everyone! So I’m sitting at the Texas children’s hospital waiting for my friends check up to finish, and I’m reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (my favorite author!). I realized have not written to y’all in a while so I decided to kind of give y’all a look into what I have been learning the past 2 months. I asked the Lord what I should write about and the only thing I’ve been thinking of is pride and humility. The Lord put this on my heart for a reason. I realized that I should share this important topic with y’all!
So recently the Lord has called me to move churches these past few months and it was really difficult to leave everything and everyone I knew to follow where the Lord wants me. But oh boy! It’s been the best decision of my life! I’ve made so many new God centered relationships and the lord has opened so many doors for me. I began attending this young adult group called kairos and it has changed my entire view on a Christian community!
The past month at kairos we have been going over how being humble is not really how the world sees it as. In today’s society their view on how our mindset should be is ”you are the center of it all, you should only care about how YOU feel”. Media is all about “self-care“. Yes self care is good, you want to keep your mental health as good as you can. But when you constantly put yourself at the center of everything you are having a prideful mindset. At first when the Pastor brought to attention that living by that is being prideful I was very confused. He went into what Christian pride is and how it can come out in very different ways.
One way pride can show is through being insecure. Yes I know, isn’t being insecure the opposite? Well not exactly, when you’re being insecure you are worrying so much on how YOU look and or act. As Well as what people think of YOU. When we are being insecure we are putting ourselves in the center of everything. C.S. Lewis states in Mere Christianity “If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed”. When one decides to put their self above others and the Lord they are in fact being prideful. “If you really want to see how prideful you are, think how much you dislike prideful people”(Lewis, 63). Pride is the one sin that created the devil. He took his eyes off the lord for a split second and put them on himself and in a split second he wanted that power. It is a deadly sin that prevents you from having a relationship with God.
On a more positive note! There is a way to learn how to become less prideful and more like Jesus. Now let me state this before I get Into how I’ve learned to be more like Jesus. This is going to take a lifetime to obtane. We are imperfect people we will mess up and that is okay. But the first thing we need to do is Acknowledge and voice that we are prideful people. The next thing you do is constantly dive into the word, the only way to be more like Jesus is to learn his true character, you find that in the Bible. The more we dive into the word and Abide the more we become like Jesus. In a humble person they are not thinking of themselves they have their eyes on the Lord 110% of the time. C.S Lewis put it in a perfect way when one is humble “He will not be thinking about humility: he will not be thinking about himself at all”. When we constantly try and remind ourselves to be humble we are still thinking about ourselves. I know this is a very difficult thing. But one thing we need to focus on is when we’re doing something we need to ask ourselves “am I doing this to glorify myself or the Lord?” If it is yourself we need to stop and reevaluate what we’re doing. In Luke 14:11, Jesus says “For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted”. When we put ourselves on a pedastool the Lord will soon humble us, and maybe not in the way we specifically want. But! When we are humble the lord will think of us very highly!! And the only opinion that matters is the Lords opinion!
Anyways thank you guys for reading all of this I know it is a lot, but being one who struggles with pride it was put on my heart to write about it. Please feel free to leave a comment on what you think of this topic, I would love to see what you think of pride and humility!
Lewis, C. S. Mere Christianity. HarperOne, 2012.
I couldn’t agree more! This is something that I struggle with personally, and every time I do it only brings me further away from god and his grace and goodness. Society as well as the adversary (satan) will have us believe that we should serve ourselves and be our own masters. This is what the enemy wants because then we are isolated from truth and more vulnerable to deception and falling from what’s right.
You are very insightful and inspiring. ??????
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Thank you so much!!
100% agree!!
ray, this was amazing! I love your insight and C.S. Lewis is so great! I also struggle a lot with pride and I feel like I have learned so many of the same things over the past year. It’s not about me-and the joy in that is when we take the focus off of ourself, we also take the pressure off! When we aren’t the center of every situation, then the outcome has no power to define or affect us!!