Me: Howdy Prodigal!
Prodigal: How are y’all doing?
Me: Good, I am enjoying the day and trying to figure out what I should do next.
Prodigal: Why don’t you tell me how something you have been reading lately?
This comes from the book Love Fulfilling the Ultimate Quest by James P. Gills
The influence of pride upon the soul keeps a person from sensing any need of God. They think they know how to live life and what to think about every situation and person involved in their life. In their arrogance, they perceive people as objects to be used as a means to their ends, goals, and purposes. Even emotional desires are to be met, they think, by taking from spouses and friends what they perceive as their needs and rights. This exaggerated sense of self-worth is the epitome of selfishness.
Pride destroys relationships. I have not always known this truth. I learned the hard way. I always think Pride is one of those things for me that can appear in less than a second and suddenly take over all my thoughts and how I see others. Pride it is something that I struggle with. O Lord how I need to see that with you I am nothing.
1 John 4:16-17
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgement, because as he is so also are we in this world.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
