Warning: Pride will Destroy your Life

Love

We have heard about phileo (brotherly) love and agape (unconditional) love. Christ didn’t die for the world because of a phileo love. It wasn’t because the world would first love Him. It wasn’t because of any merit of my own that Christ died for me. That’s what phileo love is, it is love because of. Jesus Christ just loves me, He agapes me. And he loves these which we from time to time look down upon and judge.

Today I would ask you to consider this issue of pride. It may be like David, that in pride and arrogance you have continued on with life, ignoring sin, ignoring the judgment that must fall, going on as if nothing is wrong. Many of our families are falling apart as a result of it. Maybe it’s a self pride, a condemning pride as you look upon the needs of others, not in love but condemning them to what you feel they deserve. I call on you today, right where you are to ask God’s forgiveness and to ask Him to help you love them, to agape them as He loves.

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