Seeking The Righteousness of His Kingdom
Seeking God….To Grant The Gift of Righteousness
My attention was drawn to the phrases: “self- justification pride”, “straighten what is twisted in our arrogant hearts” and “living in hourly reliance upon You” in our prayer guide today.
For many years now, the Lord deals with me primarily in a picture when it comes to my pride. Typically He”shows” me a picture of my own face with kind of a smirk on it. This is one way He confronts me with the sin of pride. Another way is that when I go to prayer or I begin to worship Him in private I sense I am a noisy going and a clanging cymbal (I Corinthians 13) or I sense an emptiness and a distance between Him and me (Isaiah 59:2).
I am so thankful He continues to love me by reproving me and correcting me (Proverbs 3:19). When I confess the pride and the self-reliance and allow Him to straighten out my arrogant heart, there returns to me a tender and open heart to our relationship together.
How does He show you the error of your prideful and s elf-reliant ways? Be attentive to Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit and be open and thankful to our Saviors’ loving strong hand of reproof and correction.
Stephen J. Russell
Jordan’s Grove Church, Central City
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