The problem with pride.

Pride is the slow devourer of man, it plants seeds of strife and arrogance within ones soul. It not only affects your relationship with others but affects your relationship with God.

Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices God desires are a humble spirit--O God, a humble and repentant heart you will not reject.

God loves to see you and me humbled in his presence. Pride blinds us from seeing our own faults and makes us unable to love others as God loves us.
People tend to be ruthless when judging others, there's no room for consideration. But a friend told me today "I am a sinner,but the fact God woke me up today shows me that he still believes in me. He does not see me as my present but sees me as what I will become"

If God allows even your worst enemies to get up in the morning, it shows that he still loves them and you should too. Pride stops us from doing this, it eats away at any chance of empathy we could have for others. One of the most severe consequences of Pride is a weak prayer life.Instead of humbling ourselves in prayer and asking for God's guidance we would rather do things on our own and only consider God When things get really messy.

proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
It really  isn't useful for any christian   to be arrogant or full of Pride. It only leads us to fall, we Christians need to uplift and encourage one another.

On a final note: my personal experience with pride
I'm a very logical person  and I think things should be done a certain way so that God will be pleased with you. That's my pride. The bible teaches that nothing you do will ever win you a place with God ... Jesus has done that. He is the final and only acceptable sacrifice. So how do I deal with this.. I humble myself in prayer. Pride is the a problem mankind struggles with, it is pride that make us think that we should be treated a certain way by people.when we are treated any differently we are flummoxed and slowly we become angry and bitter.
I'm drawing from personal experience, but I pray for anyone else who may struggle with pride. Let's free
 ourselves  from its chains and live in the freedom available to us through Christ .

Freind or Foe

Recently I have been wondering about a certain "friend" in my life, its been really strange you know. I feel like I have good reason to think that this person feels forced to be friends with me. okay lets review the signs?
1) Does not say hi by themselves
2) only speaks properly when other friends are around( the ones that he gets along with)
3) sees me obviously sitting by myself but chooses to sit behind me
 I don't like this type of situation, i am all up for True friendship... i don't like pretend friends, its such a waste of time. I've been thinking of just turning around one day and just saying " you don't have to force yourself to be a friend of mine, just cause we have friends in common". As for me I have no issues with the guy, and am called to love everybody. Therefore I keep treating him nicely, but its getting a bit tiring. On the other hand I guess others people behaviour should not influence my behaviour and alter my good intentions. But I am human, i really do notice it. ahh well... I  think one of these days I may end up saying something, LOL it would probably make things awkward for the friendship group. lol I honestly dislike causing friction! but its cool, its coming to the end of this semester. I have to concentrate on Exams  now.

Are we friends?

someone once said

if you ever have

to ask

this question you

know

the answer already.

Not All information is Good information!

Not all information is good information. Yesterday I stumbled across a website that talked about lots and lots of the evil that was going on in this world. I didn't read a lot of it but I read enough for it to disturb my mind, the thing with my mind is that its quite sensitive. I learn and take in information by reading, its not that I'm some kind of genius that remembers everything that she reads but certain parts jump out at me and replay in my mind. So i read this and i tell you guys that most of the stuff i read kept replaying in my mind and i could not sleep. Because the information i read was negative it put me in an anxious/nervous state. So what did i do next??
I prayed.. lol i prayed for peace of mind. Seriously though this is not that first time this has happened, its like i don't learn my lesson but this time i think God allowed me to be a bit more disturbed for longer to teach me a lesson. I had to call my pastor and be like i read this that and this PLEASE, pray for peace of mind for me.

sighs funnily enough total peace of mind came upon me this afternoon. I know people may say negative things like "you have a weak mind, that's why it affected you the way it did". But that's not the point. I learnt from that and previous experiences that not all information is good for you at all.Some you should just stay away from! especially if you are susceptible. This entry is for my future reference in case I EVER feel like reading something stupid again, which will be NEVER!

I end with this

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." John 14:27

Excel in the face of Adversity

Recently I saw something that made me very sad and I don't think that will change, i think every time i encounter it i will react the same way. taken aback..reclusive...and lonely.  I should know  and i have heard that some people in the world are like that and its their choice, but it doesn't make it hurt any less. So i write to let it out! It so sad when you like people so much but they end up hurting you because of prejudgements and unfair sweeping conclusions about you that have no ground . Especially when its something you can't control, some thing they have no right to look down on you because of .... In deep thought i came to this conclusion.

People's opinions should not and will not in the future concern me, I will not change who I am because of people who are inconsiderate. My attitude will not change, no matter who you are or where you are from I will give you a fair chance. Those who have been hurt should not hurt others.
Confident Lifestyle! Their opinion of me does not change the truth of who i really am inside, when let them change my attitude is when I have been defeated.