SCRIPTURE: First pride, then the crash—the bigger the ego, the harder the fall. It’s better to live humbly among the poor than to live it up among the rich and famous. Proverbs 6:18-19 MSG
THOUGHT: How’s your pride quotient? It’s a tricky question, because we have to have some pride in order to function well, but if it gets out of hand, it’s like a that sticky weed, Galium aparine, that is right now taking over parts of the garden. Some call it Velcro weed, and for a good reason. It sticks to anything, including your gloves, your pets, and your plants. If it blooms, you’re in more trouble because when you pull it, it scatters tiny seeds everywhere, and guess what? Your weed pulling fate for next year just got settled.
In the same way, if you don’t want to be picking pride weed the rest of your life, you just have to work to keep it in check. And there’s nothing like a big dose of humility (or a big crash) to bring it down to size.
PRAYER: Father, I am vulnerable to pride as I struggle between confidence in who you’ve made me and over-estimating my importance. What I’d really like is to be at rest, confident in you, no crashes needed to wake me up to pride, like Velcro, sticking to the stories of my life.
Amy released a full-length book in early 2021, Walking When You’d Rather Fly: Meditations on Faith After the Fall. Maybe you’d like to check it out here.
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