Thursday, 28 January 2016

Remain humble and Get rid of Pride

By Teboho Masakala ©





Being humble doesn’t make you dull or an easy target for people to take you for granted.  Humility is one thing that will take you far. God uses the humble for his work and elevates them. He never uses prideful people because all they are and want is to boast to others and they depend on their might and will as if like it was them that made it possible to achieve the kind of success they have.

Many have been dethroned, lost their place in work, position of power or lost their loved ones due to pride and boasting. Pride will lead you to think that all you do is by your power and that you don’t need anyone. The more prideful you are the more you are slowly going down. Do not be deceived, God doesn’t work with pride but uses the bumble to shame the prideful.

In this world, people boast, whatever they have, money, cars or whatever material possession they may have they make it as if like it was their strength that accumulated all they have. Bragging on social media just to get a fading respect from people!


Yes a fading respect because once all they have vanish, people also vanish!!  Humility can take you places you never imagined you will. Fused with respect, the two can take you countries you never imagined you will be at. God uses the humble and elevates them.

Be it at a place of work, school or wherever you may be, stay humble. Don’t boast to anyone about what you have because it will lead to pride that will result in your downfall. Humbly let God be the one that will elevates you. Let what you do praise him more than this world. Many think bragging on social media will gain them respect not knowing it can attract both positive and negative.

Despite your success, wealth and all the good in your life, don’t be big headed and think it was by your might to have acquired your success. God can humble you and make you lose all you have. The Lord gives and he takes.

You cannot praise God when you are full of pride. It will be hard to do so, but remain humble, respect everyone and that alone can lead God to shower you with plenty rain of blessings. Graves are the saddest place ever because they have a testimony of those buried in them who were killed by pride. If graves could talk, they would tell and spew out of them those who died because of refusing to remain humble.

 Those who fought as their pride was at stake and as such didn’t want to lose it.
If graves could talk, they would narrate about those who totally refused to remain humble as they didn’t want to be undermined. They would advise those alive  how important it is to remain humble. Sadly they can’t talk.

Don’t be carried away by pride or material success. Put humility above all. Patrice Motsepe, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther (Lutheran Church founder) John Wesley (Methodist Church founder) Nathi Mankayi and others are examples of how higher humility can take you. God uses the humble and elevates them. Against all odds, remain humble.


By Teboho Masakala © 

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