Is It Hard?

                                                  Is It Hard?

                                                  by: radicalroy (7-7-2007, Solo,Indonesia)

Pride goes before a fall. Justice is good! Is there anybody more annoying than a know-it-all? You know the kind-the straight-A student who has an answer for every question in every class, or the girl who has some high and lofty opinion on everything from the clothes you’re wearing to the solution for world peace, or the guy who would never in a million years admit that the way he treated his girlfriend was wrong.

People like that have a problem much bigger than their annoying behavior-they’ve got a huge problem with pride. For religious people come right out and say that God detest pride. Exactly what is-and isn’t-sinful pride?

The kind of pride that is bad is an arrogant, egotistic attitude of superiority. People who are afflicted with it defy anyone who holds any kind of authority over them, at least they try to. They’re always right, never wrong (just ask them)-and they don’t exactly spend a lot of time confessing their sin to God. In fact, they are often so blind that they pride themselves on their lack of mistake!

If you’re not careful, your pride will tune out and turn up the volume of self-righteousness in your own head. You might think this way; I know what I’m doing! It’s my life, and you just shove off. A few months later, you still refuse to admit you were wrong, even yourself. Until you confess your pride and pay attention to warning, you’ll be slinking along a surefire path to moral failure.

The ability to admit that you are wrong and humble yourself before God is another mark of maturity. Being in the wrong is not such a terrible thing; staying in the wrong is. When you are wrong, admit it-then get up, make the wrong things right, and use what you’ve learned to ward off failure in the future.