Pride

Why do you go to church? Why do you read the Bible? Why do you pray? Why do you give tithe/offerings?

If your answer to these questions was ‘because the Bible says to’ or ‘because that’s what Christians do’ then you may be missing the point.

Pride is a part of our human nature. Without even thinking about it we do prideful things. Someone at the grocery store offers to help us with our bags and we say ‘no thanks’. We don’t want to appear weak. Someone offers to pay for our lunch and we say ‘no thanks’. We don’t want to appear unable to support ourselves. God says give it to me and we say ‘no thanks, I can handle it’. We don’t want to appear dependent.

Now, back to those questions above. Why do we do those things? Is it because we are trying to earn our salvation by doing our assignments/homework? We are GIVEN eternal  life for believing, not for following the rules. Now I’m not saying we shouldn’t follow the rules but it should be because we love God and want to please Him. It should be the desire of our hearts to fellowship with other believers, to read God’s Word, to communicate with God, and to give him everything we have since He gave it to us in the first place. Being a Christian is not doing a job, it’s living a life…an abundant life.

So next time you are at church, you open your Bible, you begin to pray, or you give something to God stop for a second and think about why you are doing it and then take joy doing it.