
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
— proverbs 16:18
Michael who was once a very intelligent student, started performing poorly in his exams, his TRUE friends offered to put him through his in the areas he found difficult but he bluntly refused. He was still trying to feed his ego. A once intelligent boy became an average student all because of pride.
The Meaning Of Pride
Qualities Of A Proud Person
I was once in such a situation, so I completely understand how it feels.
Who Are The Proud?
People who take advice from no one,
People who feel they’re better than everyone else.
People who refuse to acknowledge God for their success.
People who look down on others.
People who find fault in others.
People who don’t take responsibility for their actions.
People who find it hard to forgive others.
People who are quick to make enemies.
When you discover that you possess at least two of the aforementioned qualities, just know that;
YOU ARE PROUD!
Effects Of Pride
But on your birthday, you would want to be wakened up from bed by the melodious sound of a trumpet, get a beautiful cake and an awesome gift from your lesser human friends.
The questions are;
Who did you do the same for?
Do unto others as you would have them do to you. Pride is the founding father of selfishness. And we live in a selfish world governed by selfish people. Pride brings about disconnection from every aspect of life.
Haven’t you observed that when you feel you know something too much and pride yourself in it, the universe has a very special way of humbling you?
But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
— Matthew 23:12 —
The main effect of pride is disconnection. Disconnection from people, disconnection from yourself, disconnection from God.
And finally, Pride leads to destruction.
Disconnection From People
I lost relationships with most of my classmates, I thought that I was being mature and most of what we did together was all childish stuff but I didn’t know that they were angry with me, a good friend of mine told me, but we became enemies, Later on, I discovered that I was Proud.
Funnily enough, at then, I didn’t have anything worth anything, so what was I proud of? Nothing. Funny isn’t it? Pride destroys, pride never exalts. Pride is the cause of 90% of divorce and other disconnection. When you begin to feel as though you are better than everyone else and everyone else is beneath you, just know that your end is nigh.
No genuine friend of yours will tolerate your pride, so they’ll disconnect from you. If there’s anyone encouraging you when you are doing something wrong, just know that that person does not like you. The person is against your progress.
Disconnection From Yourself
If you are proud, you’ll eventually lose yourself, you’ll begin to feel bad. You might not agree with me, but eventually, it’ll happen. You can lie to everyone except yourself. PRIDE Lead’s to DESTRUCTION.
Whoever has been marked for destruction will have pride as a habit. A man who has been successfully disconnected from God is condemned already. Pride slowly, cunningly and tactically leads to destruction. Goliath was a very proud soldier, he prided himself in his arrogance and had the effrontery to speak against the name of the lord.
In the story above, Michael from a ‘genius’ student to an average student, pride led to his downfall. A proud person will fall eventually, it’s only a matter of time.
The proud do not take advice nor counsel from anyone and as such, they are set for destruction.
Disconnection From God
— James 4:6 —
There have been so many bible references of God humbling the proud. Pride disconnects you from God. Pride kills.
Ways In Getting Rid Of Pride
Make your mind to getting rid of your pride,
Accept your past, present and future mistakes,
Don’t keep malice with anyone,
Take responsibility for your actions,
Have the willingness to learn,
Acknowledge God.
Make Your Mind Up On Getting Rid Of Your Pride
You can do anything you want to do only if you put your mind to it. When you put your mind power to work, the possibilities are endless, you can soar great mountains and cross mighty oceans.
Accept Your Mistakes
Don’t be too headstrong as to not accept your mistakes, you are a human being so you are prone to making mistakes.
Don’t’ Keep Malice With Anyone
Take Responsibility For Your Actions
Most people find it hard to admit that they are at fault and it’s bad. You are mere human, you are prone to making mistakes. Don’t feel bad. No matter how bad or good your actions are, take responsibility for them.
Have The Willingness To Learn
In life, one destiny depends on the other. You were created to impact the lives of others and others were created to make impacts on your life as well. You trying to stop a plan orchestrated by God is pride, the end result is destruction.
Don’t be afraid to ask someone for help in learning. We learn every day either through experience or through teaching.
Here’s a tip;
If you don’t know a particular thing and someone else regardless of age, race and sex knows it, ask that person to teach you. Do you know why? People may find it odd, but ignorance is a disease. Don’t be ashamed to ask someone to teach you anything you don’t know, that you ought to have known.
Acknowledge God
He had a bountiful harvest, he asked his servants to gather all his proceeds and store them in barns; This is the work of my hand, Gather them and store them in barns that I may eat and drink for many more years to come.
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About The Author
Favour Scott is the driving force behind TheFavourIdeas, a blog where he helps people by the reorientation of the mind. He’s an Author, Enthusiast and a Futurist. His goal is to re-orientate people on their perceptions of reality. He writes at Seven Exceed.
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