[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] "Check Your Ego at the Door" - Brenda Walsh Ministries Daily Devotion

Fri Jun 11 03:58:27 UTC 2021

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Check Your Ego at the Door
Someone once said, “Blowing out someone else’s candle doesn’t make your own shine any brighter.” In fact, it’s just the opposite. There is nothing uglier to see than someone badmouthing another, belittling them just to make themselves look better. Putting others down is not a sign of strength, but rather a sign of weakness. One of the first things mentioned in the “love chapter” in 1 Corinthians 13 is that love is never boastful or proud. Bragging about your accomplishments, talents, good looks, or how wealthy you are is not acting in a Christlike way. Pride has a way of not only destroying the lives of friends and loved ones, but your own as well. It also promotes loneliness and isolation, and it’s difficult to have loving relationships if you are dominated by pride. Hurt feelings cannot be mended if you refuse to come down from the self-righteous tower of pride. Harsh words cause trouble, but it is pride that gets in the way of healing disagreements. God wants you to show love, meekness, and humility. The Bible provides plenty of guidance to help you get rid of your exaggerated sense of self and keep your ego in check. Romans 12:3 warns: “Don’t think you’re better than you really are.” And Proverbs 20:9 says, “Who can say, ‘I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin?” No one is perfect and to think that you are is not only foolish, but lethal, for pride will keep you out of heaven. Neither are you better than anyone else, for God created all His children to be equal. So the next time you receive a compliment, are recognized with an award, or bragged about by a colleague–before getting all puffed up and full of yourself, stop a moment, pray a quick prayer for humility, then check your ego at the door! TEXT: 1 Peter 5:5, Proverbs 29:23, Jeremiah 9:23-24, Mark 7:20-23

Bible Texts:
1 Peter 5:5 NKJV - Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble." 

Proverbs 29:23 NKJV - A man's pride will bring him low, But the humble in spirit will retain honor. 

Jeremiah 9:23-24 NKJV - Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight," says the LORD. 

Mark 7:20-23 NKJV - And He said, "What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, "thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. "All these evil things come from within and defile a man."

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