It amazes me how God uses things from our less-than-perfect past - even from before we become Christians - to speak to us today.
I recently was thinking about pride, and remembered watching Charmed. Not exactly a Biblical TV show. But God was able to use the memory of one episode to teach me.
You see, in this episode, the three sisters (and the husband of one of them) get infected with one of the seven deadly sins. One gets lust, one sloth, one gluttony, and one pride. They don't know that they have them, but they can get rid of them if they do one truly selfless act, in opposition to the vice they have been infected with.
The two sisters with lust and gluttony get free, as does the slothful husband. The girl with pride does not, and has to be rescued.
Later, they are analysing the events, and the girl with pride says, "I don't understand. You all did one selfless act and got free, but I did MANY selfless acts, and I didn't."
"Perhaps it was because it was all for the greater glory of Prue," another of the sisters says.
That's the real issue with pride. It's all about OUR greater glory. It isn't about God at all, even if we are 'serving' him. It's about US.
Who's greater glory are you working for?
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