Pride Plants The Seed

Pride is the root of all sin and Humility is the root of all virtue.

A couple of weeks ago, I made a declaration of "30 Days of Positive."

And from that moment, I was tested. Hard....And I failed HARD. But, I thank God for the failure because it showed me where I was in the spirit. The Bible says that if you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. --Proverbs.

It showed me how weak I am in the spirit. I was hit hard and I wanted to give up. I didn't speak it out of my mouth, but in my heart, I wanted to just give up.

I Thank God that He hasn't given up on me, even when I want to give up. Thank you, Jesus!!

So, I'm going to start my 30 days of positive all over because I NEED to get through this. I NEED to increase my strength in Christ.

A lot of the thing that troubled me comes from the spirit of Pride.

Mister said something to me and I didn't agree with him. He wanted to know what I thought about this statement: "Women need men, like fish need a bike."

I told him that I didn't agree and that as a whole women need men. How could we procreate. And I told him that as an individual, I needed a man. I want to get married, I want to have children so I need a man to do that with. As I thought about that during church last night, I realized that if it is not God's will that I get married then a man is not what I need. A man is what I want, not need. So, I'm retracting and saying that I don't NEED a man. What I NEED is the will of God in my life.

So, in my 30 days of positive, I'm going to do these things:

1. Make a firm decision to think about, understand, and adopt Jesus' way of thinking. His values and attitudes must become mine. 

Phillipians 4:8 Fix your thoughs on what is true and good and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely, and dwell on the fine, good things in others. Think about all you can praise God for and be glad about.

I have to want the mind of Christ. 

I shouldn't be failing every test.

And I failed this past test. I also failed a major test last year.

2. I must earnestly and regularly pray for the Holy Spirit to change our hearts, for it is impossible to do it in our own strength. 

Jude 1:20 But you, dear friends, must build up your lives ever more strongly upon the foundation of our holy faith, learning to pray in the power and strength of the Holy Spirit. 

3. I must have a right view of myself before God and others. 

Humility is having a realistic sense of who I am to God and others. Pride is puffed up and sometimes false. I can't think of myself to highly and too lowly. When I understand who I am, I don't have to pretend.