Pride is self-reliance, which leads to self-destruction.

Proverbs 16:18 (KJV) – Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Most times we just go with the flow – doing things but not really understanding the real why.

In everything, get wisdom and understanding.

Proverbs 4:7 (KJV) – wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Lying, stealing, killing, adultery, just to name a few, is a normal, daily occurrence.

They are STILL God’s commandment that we are NOT to do.

Exodus 20:13-16 (KJV) – thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Man did not make the earth and he does not own it.

God made the earth and He owns it all.

Psalm 24:1 (KJV) – the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

God said to ask Him for what you need, although He knows what you need before you ask Him.

Matthew 6:8 (KJV) – Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

God is concerned about everything that concerns you.

Call on Him.

Psalm 86:7 (KJV) – in the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

We don’t always have to be in control of everything.

Its not to say that you don’t know what you’re doing, but let God handle it.

He’s more adequate than you are.

II Corinthians 3:5 (KJV) – not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is of God.

We don’t what others lying to us.

So why do we lie to others?

In every thing, you are to treat others like you want to be treated.

Matthew 7:12 (KJV) – therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Live your life unto God, by the faith that lives in you, which is Jesus Christ.

Not by the law of this world.

Galatians 2:19-20 (KJV) – for I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

There are some that haven’t grown up after they grew up.

Grow to know our Lord and Saviour.

But grow in grace.

II Peter 3:18 (KJV) – but grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.