Pride Kills

All too often, many of us perish, in some shape or form, due to pride. There comes a time in life, where your pride will have to be knocked aside. God calls us to be humble; humility, in some situations, may not always be easy but it is required of you. One day you may be placed in a position where you'll be faced with a decision to either humble yourself and live or remain prideful and perish, pride can kill.

Life throws all sorts of curve balls at us and we often end up knocked down, bruised and battered. We go through life on are own, too ashamed to admit where we've fallen, too embarrassed to ask for help, to prideful to let someone know what's going on. But if we would just open our mouth and humble ourselves, we would realize, that more so than not, help is right in front of us, but pride will cause you to miss your way out.

I've seen it so many times. People drowning and sin, you can see the shame from the actions they've committed, but with tight lips they refuse to let it out and confess, too embarrassed, too prideful to admit that they've done wrong. Or people who have fallen on financial hard times; they don't look the way the used to, they don't dress the way they used to, they seem to be struggling, you know something's not right, you can pretty much guess what's going on, you're willing to help but due to pride, they won't open their mouth and say, "I need help!" They would rather suffer and struggle on, than let someone know that they are going through a fiery trial.

Pride kills. It's as simple as that. The proud have a long fall from the top, some are already at the bottom and will suffer even worse blows. But it doesn't have to be this way. Take the mask off and humble yourself. If you're hurting, tell someone. Don't sit there and suffer alone because you're so full of pride. If you're struggling, reach out for help, don't perish when help and breakthrough could be right in front of you, don't let your pride drag you down to the depths. Pride kills, so let it go.

God Bless