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Blogs > allamazed2 > Spiritual Standards


allamazed2 59F
710 posts
1/21/2006 11:45 am

Last Read:
3/5/2006 9:29 pm
THE "BETTER THAN" SYNDROME

Mention basketball and watch Ray strut around like a peacock. That's because he knows he's the best player in the city. Start talking about physics, chemistry or anything haveing to do with science and techonology, and Pat will quickly try and dominate the discussion.
If there's a party, "beautiful" Kim is sure to be there. She knows she can get any guy's attention and can keep it for as long as she likes. Other girls aren't exactly crazy about her, but with the guys Kim is it.

Every individual is prideful about soimething. And God's Word has a good word for each one: For the person who is proud of strenght or physical albility: Hosea 10:13.
For the person who is arrogant about wealth: "But man despite his riches, does not endure; he is like the beasts that perish" (psalm 49:12).
For trhe person who is vain about looks: 1 Samuel `6. For the person who is conceited about smarts: Jeremiah 9:23-24.
For the person who is spirutually cocky: Luke 19:9-14.
Perhaps Proverbs 21:4 best sums up those prideful feelings fo superiority: "Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin!"

Well-known writer C. S. Lewis wisely noted that all pride has competition or comparison at its root. People get their pleasure not out of just having something but having more of it than the next person. They get pleasure not of being "beautiful" or smart or rich but out of being mroe beautiful or smarter or richer. It's the comparision that produces pride.

Ask God to make you less comeptetive. Tehn make a conscious effort not to outdo others.
How? Refuse to get in arguments. Avoid comparisons. Resist the urge to make others look bad. In fact, begin saying and doing things tha will make others look good.
Develop this habit, and you'll have more fun.

Read 2Kings 5:1-15 for the story of Naaman the leper and how he was cured not only of leprosy but also of pride.

savannahsmile
(Beverly B) 64F
21 posts
1/21/2006 2:37 pm

 I have to smile. I have a "friend" who every time you speak with him - he has a story to one-up you. I noticed that after a while I stopped sharing me - with him. He wasn't interested in me, only in letting me see how much better, smarter, athletic, spiritual, etc. he was than I.

Sometimes in an effort to relate to people we share with them a story that we see as similar to them. Whether it is to validate ourselves or to let them know we understand, if we're not careful - we are in a way - one-upping them. I have found that it is a good rule of thumb to share with people who ask you to share and listen to people who are unable to lift you up rather than to share and be knocked down by them.

Somewhere in there - it's got to do with our spiritual maturity.

Thanks for the time and effort you took to write this.


allamazed2 59F
713 posts
1/22/2006 11:40 am

 sure does friendlychat, pride comes before the fall the scriptures says.

Savannahsmile Thank you for this comment, especially this one: "Whether it is to validate ourselves or to let them know we understand, if we're not careful - we are in a way - one-upping them"




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