Make RoomSample

There are several barriers to repentance.  We have to first acknowledge our pride, our errors,  and shortcomings before God can step in.  Honesty is not popular, but we need to be reminded that we can put stock in a whole lot of earthly things outside of God’s will.  Pride tells us that we can live on our own and do our own thing apart from Him. We live in a world that feeds pride and self-reliance.  We chase affirmation, popularity, success, position, image, and lust after many things that do not please God. We’re reinforced in an ideology that we need to make something of ourselves or improve upon ourselves. You may find yourself chasing emptiness, reliant on your own success, and satisfied by the world’s cravings.  You may be walking in self-deception, unable to acknowledge where you’ve missed the mark and need to ask for forgiveness.  If you are not daily leaning on God for truth, confidence, guidance, or leadership, then you may need to ask yourself whether pride has made its home comfortably in your life.  God wants to see us walking in humility of heart.  

Pride deceivingly whispers that we can navigate daily by ourselves and misguides us to reliance upon people and environmental conditions.  Leadership was never meant to take Jesus’ place in our lives.  We can often rely so heavily on others, that we miss inviting Jesus into the equation. God is ready to move in our lives, but pride keeps us distant from God.   

QUESTIONS 

From what or from whom do you find and build your confidence? 

When was the last time you sat with God and asked him to forgive you of “lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, or the pride of life”?  

Have you prioritized guidance from leadership above approval from God?