Consider Pride

Please follow the link below and read the chapter it brings you to and I’ll share my thoughts on what you read. What you read may be strange, but there’s a lesson to be learned.

Read Daniel 4
Listen to Daniel 4

This chapter is an extreme example of what can happen when we become prideful and self-righteous. God loves us all and sometimes has us go through something to teach us not to be a certain way or have an un-glodly attitude. We should thank the Lord for what He provides. And remember He’s in control. God can change evil world leaders’ hearts just like he did with Nebuchadnezzar. So let’s never give up on asking the Lord to reveal himself and touch the hearts of terrorists and tyrants. God is so awesome! He even loves the wicked and wants them to change, but on the other hand, He could easily replace them. Worst case scenario he could just wipe them out one way or another.

If you read the next chapter in Daniel, you’ll know what I mean.

Read Daniel 5
Listen to Daniel 5

I’d like to show you just one more thing I found in Titus 2. It talks about we should live. If we listen to what it says, we won’t end up like Nebuchadnezzar’s former self, prideful and arrogant.

Luke 18:9-14
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Titus 2:11-14

11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.