Seeking Praise From Others….

Humility is a hard thing to be consistently practicing. It’s almost impossible living in a sin-promoting world. Sin always starts in the head, works it’s way into the heart, then breaks out in our actions. The second we commit one, our pride jumps in to rationalize it away. Any time we do something nice, or great, we want praise for it. We seek praise because we don’t give enough to God. We were created to praise, not be praised, but somehow sin and Satan seems to twist it around and use it to our detriment. It is God Who forgives. It is God Who washes our sins away. It is God Who buries the thought of them in the deepest recesses on the earth, never to be thought of again. And it is God Who blots out our sins for His Own sake, not ours, that gives us second chances. The next time you find yourself seeking praise from others, ask yourself “where are my priorities”? I guarantee you’ll find them living in and of the world.

24 You have not brought Me fragrant calamus or pleased Me with the fat from sacrifices. Instead, you have burdened Me with your sins and wearied Me with your faults. 25 “I–yes, I alone–will blot out your sins for My own sake and will never think of them again. Isaiah 43:24-25