get the Word out
  • read & share
  • Welcome!
  • Homeschooling (clickschool)
    • Curriculum Planning
    • Bible Curriculum
    • clickschool primary >
      • Week 1 Creation
      • Week 2 Noah
      • Week 3 Joseph
      • Week 4 Moses
      • Week 5 Joshua
      • Week 6 Samuel
      • Week 7 David
      • Week 8 Solomon
      • Week 9 Elijah
      • Week 10 Daniel
      • Week 11 Esther
      • Week 12 Jonah
      • Coming Soon
  • Discipleship

Pride isn't Fitting

5/20/2015

0 Comments

 
Picture
May 20, 2015
Pride isn’t Fitting
Romans 15:5
May God, who gives this patience and encouragement, help you live in complete harmony with each other, as is fitting for followers of Christ Jesus.

Believers should get along with each other, and when they don’t, it’s helps the unbelievers to remain unbelievers because to them we don’t look any different.

According to this passage, it takes patience and encouragement to get along with others and live in harmony with them.  But when we continue to operate out of our default setting (which is usually just plain ol’ pride) we do not show to the world a group of fitting followers of Christ Jesus.

Pride doesn’t mix with patience, encouragement, and repentance. Pride prevents us from admitting faults or dwelling with others in an understanding way. Pride makes hearts hard, and a hard heart makes a person completely irrational.

For the hearts of these people are hardened,
    and their ears cannot hear,
    and they have closed their eyes--
so their eyes cannot see,
    and their ears cannot hear,
    and their hearts cannot understand
.

This passage from Acts 28:27 describes an irrational person. Picture a toddler closing his eyes thinking he’s made you go away or a spoiled brat covering her ears and making noise while you’re talking, “la la la I’m not listening to you.” They’re prideful. They don’t want to be corrected, and it’s made the irrational, deceived, and unfitting.

Believers I have witnessed who fail to live in harmony with other Believers simply just have a beef. They’ve taken an offense over something without knowing the whole story, yet when they find out the whole story they are too embarrassed (prideful) to admit being wrong in any way and the result is always a heaping big batch of divisiveness and bitterness. It’s ironic and weird and certainly shameful that churches are full of these people. But you just can’t reason with an irrational person. It’s impossible.

It’s better to be patient with one another like God instructs. Find out the all the truth before declaring war and taking sides on an issue. Remember, the first person to speak always sounds right according to Proverbs 18:17. So, we’d better just make sure that person isn’t insane from pride!

Dear God,
You know how you want your Church to operate -- Loving and forgiving, like a family. Help the Believers I know to cling to the patience and encouragement that you give so that we can all be fitting followers of Christ together, so unbelievers won’t be misled, so that we won’t be blind and crazy from pride. Thank you for always giving us the Truth and the instructions and the ability to obey and trust you. I love you and thank you and pray in Jesus’ name, amen.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    September 2022
    August 2021
    July 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    March 2020
    October 2019
    September 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly