Saturday August 27th

Saturday, August 27th

Today is my father’s birthday. He is now 54 and my son, as a gift, gave him a present at work: a leaky dirty diaper. I slept most of the day, I for whatever reason was just so exhausted. But alas, I knocked out a QT all the same.

Proverbs 8:11-13
11 for wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her. 12 "I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence; I possess knowledge and discretion. 13 To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.

I am personally in search to knock out the log in my own eye. I have a friend who I see in his character GREAT pride. When he is discipled, he closes himself down, gets depressed, the whole nine yards. Basically, a big pity party. Then he starts to turn on his friends and blame shifts. There are so many issues with him, and for me to approach him, I need to first look at myself and God. Verse 12 (above) says that through wisdom, I can attain knowledge and discretion. I fear God and thus, hate evil. If wisdom hates evil, thus hating pride and arrogance, which would mean pride and arrogance are evil. I also notice that pride and arrogance are grouped together and separated by a comma, meaning that with one comes the other. Can you have pride and not be arrogant? Can you be arrogant and not prideful? I think that also with verse 13, perverse speech catches my eye.

Perverse (adj.)

1. Directed away from what is right or good; perverted.


2. Obstinately persisting in an error or fault; wrongly self-willed or stubborn.

I can see how I can be perverse. I tend to try to be humorous by poking fun at things, maybe not going to a “perverted” path, but I can tend to focus more on things that are not so good or right. The second definition, “persisting in an error or fault” really hits home. I can harp on something and play it out like it is a fault. I am glad I am doing a study on pride; I think this is really going to help me out and in turn help others. God hates sin. Pride is a sin. God hates pride. I am going to crucify this sin, make a change in my life, and become a better disciple for my God and those in my fellowship. I want God to be pleased with me. I want to be with my God in heaven, and this study is going to help get me to my end goal. This race must be won. Johnny Out.