June is Pride month
That reminds me
Let’s talk about Pride
Jesus hates pride
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord:
though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. Proverbs 16:5
Doesn’t matter what it’s about
Pride is what caused Lucifer to fall like lightning
And He said unto them,
I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Luke 10:18
Satan thought more highly of himself than he ought
The world says you should have pride in this or pride in that
Not according to God,
according to God, we are nothing without God
And, we can do nothing without Jesus
I am the vine, ye are the branches:
He that abideth in Me, and I in him,
the same bringeth forth much fruit:
for without Me ye can do nothing. John 15:5
Elevating anything other than what glorifies Jesus
is friendship with the world
For Christians to participate and join with anyone in the world
who celebrates or idolizes anything or anyone other than Jesus Christ,
is joining with the world
That is not pleasing to God, to put it mildly
Adulterers and adulteresses!
Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?
Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world
makes himself an enemy of God. James 4:4
There are reasons we could celebrate Jesus and glorify Him:
Reasons found in His word, such as, protecting innocent life;
speaking out against those who defile holiness;
Pastors who make the church a den of thieves;
false teaching; or political persons who work against God’s laws
The two most important commandments:
Jesus said unto him,
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Matthew 22:37-40
If something isn’t about Jesus, it will be offensive to Him
if His people participate and that action will grieve His Holy Spirit
If we are to glorify someone or something else above Jesus,
it would be similar to when the Israelites created a molten calf
and worshiped it
We can find and know what is important to Jesus by searching His word
He does not mince words
His words are very clear
This is religion:
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,
To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,
and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1:27
And, this is what Jesus is looking for from us
Very clearly, it is not one who is cloaked with the pride of this world:
For all those things hath Mine hand made,
and all those things have been, saith the Lord:
but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit,
and trembleth at My word. Isaiah 66:2
Do actions that make Jesus want to look toward you
Honor Him, glorify Him, walk humbly
and keep yourself separated from the world