The Lifter of My Head

Do you take pride in everything you do?  In your work?  In your car?  In your house?  Are you prideful?  Where should you draw the line between being prideful and taking pride in your work?

When I do a good job, I am proud of my self.  I have accomplished a task.  I have finished that task and I have done a good job.  Does that make me prideful?  Not necessarily.  Did I brag about it to all my coworkers?  Did I call up all my friends and tell them about what I did?  Sometimes we need to tell someone about a job that we did, but it should only be used as a tool.  Are you training someone?  Are you teaching someone?  Using your job as an example to others may not be being prideful.

But if you run around telling every body about what happened just so they will tell you that you did a good job, then that’s bragging.  That’s being prideful, or being full of your self.  Are you the topic of conversion?  You shouldn’t be. A great listener will be welcomed by every one.  If you only brag about yourself, people will avoid you when they see you coming.  In Psalm 3:3, it tells me that God is the one who holds my head high.  He is the one to give me a pat on the back, not my friends after bragging to them.

Every thing you do should be to glorify God.  Let God be the One who brags about you.