DAILY BREAD: YOU MAY BE CONCEITED AND NOT KNOW IT

November 28, 2013

For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.” – 2 Corinthians 10:12

In my little years of walk with God, I am coming to realize that Christians do not always fall to “big sin” and scandal. Even when they do, it started from a simple oversight.

We drift, we don’t always plan to stray from God. For the most of it, we are unaware of the fact that we have started straying because of arrogance.

Christians get too confident in their faith that they fail to see where they are missing it. They are too focus on teaching that they themselves take in nothing.

Arrogance is the biggest killer that wars against the Christian faith. Once a Christian becomes conceited, it’s easy for other things that negates God’s will to find its way.

God may be telling you something about the decision you want to make, about the relationship you are trying to get into, about a fellow Christian, about something that looks right on the outward – and worse, about something that is right but not good for you but because of arrogance – the feeling that you already know based on your knowledge of God – one may miss what God is trying to say.

It’s important to be sober. The bible used the word “sober” for a purpose – because it is important! You may think you are depending on the Holy Spirit but really, you may just be depending on your own understanding of the Holy Spirit, how you think the Holy Spirit works. Being sober makes you submit out of your will. It makes you become like a child who just wants to learn. The best part is this, it takes away arrogance.