"haugh-TEA--pomposi-TEA---superiori-TEA--vani-TEA"

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16:18, NIV)

How many ways can one "negatively" spell pride? A.r.r.o.g.a.n.t./ B.o.a.s.t.f.u.l. / C.o.n.c.e.i.t. / H.u.b.r.i.s. / S.n.o.o.t.y.

How many destructive results can pride bring into one's life?

• Pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God. (2 Chronicles 26:16)
• Pride is as a chain about their neck (bondage) (Psalm 73:6)
• When pride cometh, then cometh shame (Proverbs 11:12)
• Only by pride cometh contention (quarreling) (Proverbs 13:10)
• A man's pride shall bring him low: (Proverbs 29:23)

The results are destructive; the root is pride. What's the root of pride? Self!!!!!!!!!

prIde---I (self) is in the middle of it all. 

Memo to prideful person: "Get over yourself." 
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. (Proverbs 11:2)

Drain those dregs of haugh-TEA-ness, pomposi-TEA, superiori-TEA and vani-TEA from your life's cuppa and allow the Lord to serve you a cuppa humili-TEA from His wounded hands!

SATURDAY SNIPPETS #5

11/9/13 

A Snippet---similar to a text--pithy. Hopefully, pithy with a punch!

To experience God’s sufficiency, we must realize our own insufficiency.

Trust the All Sufficient One for "sufficiency" for all of life's needs.

Abundant life of vitality comes from union with Him. "Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee;" Psalm 73:26

When we walk with the Lord, there comes a new vitality, a superabundance of life. ... because he lives within them, they have the riches of the superabundant life. (John 10:10)

Do you have life?

It is only when one lives with the Lord that life becomes really worth living and one begins to "live" in the real sense of the word.