Today I have included an option to watch on video or read the blog 🙂
Video Blog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_nAmiBRINU&feature=youtu.be
I have considered writing on this topic for sometime now. Pride, this has been a very real struggle for me over the years; although it took me a long time to come to the conclusion that it was pride. It reared it’s nasty head in so many facets. One of the major struggles for me was with our business. Jason and I had a business opportunity in 2001 in a predominately male industry (we partnered with a friend in this venture – another male). It was my mission to prove I was just as valuable as the men in our industry. I frequently reminded people I was not “Suzy Homemaker” and I was just as much part of this business as Jason and our other partner. To top it all off I frequently was asked about “my husbands” business. Oh, that would infuriate me! Why do you assume it is my husbands? As God started to transform me, He started showing me how proudful I was in so many different areas, especially with this. I slowly realized how destructive my pride was and how much God hates the sin of pride. This wasn’t the only area I struggled with pride; in making decisions, it seem to come back to what about me and how will this make me look, feel and will I be the “winner”. My marriage suffered because of my pride – “I’m not going to say I’m sorry”, everything was a competition and I wanted to win, I wanted to be the sole decision maker. Thankfully, I can share this with using a past tense format – although I’m not perfect and still deal with the issue of pride, thankfully not to the same degree. I guess that goes back to growth in Christ; the more we spend time with Him, the more we act like Him.
