"PRIDE, THE ENEMY OF PEACE"

Pride wants folks to be super spiritual, but the Lord has His way
Of exposing how much like a worm we are
As we wiggle through the day.

As I say this it is truly hard on pride,
But when the Lord brings the truth to reality
We no long wish to hide.

He also has no limit to show us the beauty of life,
He wants us to look again,
And to make sure we are living right.

That is why we must die to self
And it must be done each day.
For we have an enemy and he wants to have his way.

May we have another look, we may be shocked at what we see,
When we realize how helpless we really are,
And only Christ can make us free.

So let there be no self assurance for it is only in Christ we stand,
As we look to Him in full assurance
Let this always be our plan.

The carnal nature cannot be trained,
No more than you can make a cobra a pet.
If we do not see the seriousness of the situation
We do not understand this problem yet.

True, we must train a child in the way that he should go.
But at some point in time he, must be born again,
Or heaven he will never know.

Thankfully, we need not despair,
For our God is on His Throne,
And He is waiting for our surrender so He can take us home.

For again, there are no super Christians, for we're all born in sin.
The ground is level at the Cross where we must die to self,
That in Heaven we may enter in.

About the time we are feeling super,
And think we have arrived, wake up brother, sister,
We may be headed for a dive.

The world is in complete disagreement,
In fact they think we are a fool.
But too late they will wake up and see who made the rule.

Inspired by God
Written by mary Virginia miller
©05-04-2006