Nobody thinks they're the proud one.

And that's the hardest thing about pride is it's the easiest sin to have, but the hardest one to see.

So in today's episode, I kind of wanted to talk a little bit about pride, what scripture says and why we should avoid it.

You see, pride, whether conscious or not, it's a decision to put your place in the self of God rather than God being your shepherd.

Look at the fruit of your life right now.

If you're someone who thinks that your decisions matter the best, that you have your best

interest at heart and you shouldn't listen to anybody else put yourself, look at the fruit of your

life. The fruit of my life when I live for myself was decay, destruction, hopelessness,

depression, anxiety, you name it,

and not enough self-help books could have dug myself out of that hole. I just dug myself.

And so the fruit of your life, when living for yourself, is death and decay.

And I don't know if you hear this, but in church language, we always talk about, oh, like,

pride was birthed in the garden. And the first time we ever see pride in Scripture was in Genesis chapter 3. No, no, no, no, no. Pride happened before the garden. Look at Isaiah chapter 14. When we look at the story of Lucifer, who is an angel created by God in glory, he said, yeah, I want to be my own God. I think I can be better

than you. Pride happened before the fall. And so that's why we have to be able to recognize what

pride is, because whether you're consciously or subconsciously making the decision, pride is so nasty

because you're putting yourself in the place of God and thinking that you can lead your life rather than letting the one who created you lead your life. Isn't that crazy that we think we have our own best interest at heart thinking that, oh yeah, I know what's best for my life. Because I've lived, I'm 22 years old. Bryce knows what's best for his life. Or let me go back, I'm 15, I know what's best for my life. No, no, no, no, no, no. There's something beautiful about leaning on the creator to show us that we need him. You know, pride doesn't just happen by being loud. It can happen intrusively. By reaffirming beliefs that you have about yourself. By reaffirming beliefs you have about other people. by reaffirming beliefs that you have about yourself. By

reaffirming beliefs you have about other people, by reaffirming beliefs that you have about

situations. I mean, look at people you want to apologize to because you think you're right.

Look at relationships that have broken because you're like, yeah, I'm not men in it. I'm in the

right. Look at people that you've hurt because you want to sit on a high horse because you're not humble

enough to be wrong you're not humble enough to receive correction whereas the bible would say

god corrects them those whom he loves you aren't willing to be corrected because you think true

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