The Sin of Pride

Pride is what is making most of us to fall before His Holy eyes.

“You call me Master, and Lord; and you say well, for so I am. If then I being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another' s feet. For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, so you do also. Amen, amen I say to you: The servant is not greater than his lord; neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him. If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them. John 13:13-17 

 Blessed indeed when you try to put yourself as the lowliest of the lowliest, pride is the venom that squeezes away humility and it is humility that God likes, true, this part of the bible speaks more about how Jesus was making His disciples into priests, but, also He made himself servant and wash their feet to give them example on how to be more humble.

Look to our Blessed Mother Mary:

“He has shown strength with His arm; He has scattered the PROUD in the thoughts of their hearts; Luke 1:51

So, yes… pride is taking a toll in all of us, look how the Catholics chase away Evangelicals because they claim to have the truth, Apostle Paul said of us not be proud, because we had the truth, instead seek to be humble.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but FEAR. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. Romans 11:17-21

The Evangelicals also do this with the Catholics, the arrogance about knowing scripture and putting themselves ahead of everyone because of their knowledge, we both Catholics and Christians resent each other because of pride, if we look to be humble Jesus will make the miracle of TRUE fraternity in Christ, not the fraternity that the world offers by condoning sin.

Also the Jews, even though the Jews did not accept Jesus as their Savior and some of the Church are claiming that we are now the chosen people now, this is far from the truth as Israel still the chosen people and even though they rejected Jesus we need to pray for them to accept Him as their Savior.

If we are more HUMBLE pride goes away, but true, we need to ask the Master and Teacher, our Lord Jesus to make us more humble, try to NOT have shouting matches because of your knowledge, try NOT to be more KNOWFUL than everyone else, try to be in the MINORITY inside the Church and once we are in the MINORITY class, seek to be more lowliest, like our Blessed Mother Mary our Mother of Salvation was.

Catholics seek to be humble let Jesus judge and Condemn humanity, the same to you Evangelicals let Jesus be the Judge of your brothers and sisters, tribulation is ahead are we going to fight who should be crucified beside our Lord? Let our maker shape us into what He wants, put pride aside, put humility first.

I know this is hard, but it’s got to be done, I've got to say this to myself because I think no one is more prideful and sinful than me; so Jesus, to become more useful to you please make us more humble and let the mockery, punches, treason, and pain come our way and be like you who did NOT respond to your abusers. Amen

God bless you.