Daily writing prompt

Do you remember life before the internet?

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Humans have always found avenues for pride, but the internet’s digital platforms for pride take the cake. Now we’re bombarded by boasting day and night. Egocentric pontifications abound. Humility seems to be gone with the wind. The online pride factories have flooded our culture with their overly pitched products. Pride loves its new platforms where it’s never forced to verify its claims or to say it’s sorry.

Pride never does some things. It never weeps for mercy because it is too busy blaming others and pompously justifying itself. It scorns those who mourn and calls them weak.

Pride never pleads with tears for deliverance flooding itself with weeping. It denies its wrongdoing, its misery and its insecurity. Pride never wears itself out with groaning, grows weak with sorrow, or humbly admits to agony and anguish over its own wickedness. It refuses to separate itself from evil. (See Psalm 6.)

Pride never asks for forgiveness. Brokenness does; it’s a pride-buster! Poverty of spirit has no hope but God. It mourns with meekness, hungers and thirsts for righteousness, and continually gives in to the present and active kingdom, government, and control of the living “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

Until pride is cast aside, humans will be trapped in the riptide of evil. They will forever hide inside themselves and never surrender to the glorious love and liberty of God’s presence and light. They won’t deny self-focus, take up their cross, or obey their conscience and the inner nudgings of Christ speaking within them.

Christianity isn’t about how much Bible info you know. It’s about how freely you flow with God’s Spirit and humbly obey His promptings. (Instead of encouraging people to obey the inner leadings of God’s Spirit churches prefer a planned and programmed presentation.) The more you humbly focus your attention on the risen Jesus, the more you will be aware of His presence and His nudgings. Listen to and obey Christ’s still, small voice right now. Let it override your pride.