Pride, The Enemy Of The Gospel

As Christians, we need to be careful not to exclude God from every aspect of our lives. I find that so often in the things that we feel weak, we humbly trust God to get us through but in areas of our lives where we feel confident, we fail to give God the glory and ask for his strength do so. But this should not be so. In our ignorance we may have temporary success in man's eyes, but we are only creating mere habits of pride in our lives. God must be in control of our entire lives but, in our fleshly pride, we so often fall before the idol of ourselves. And this idol of self sufficiency, based in pride is an enemy of the Gospel. Pride tells us that we can make it on our own. We can have salvation through ourselves and we are stronger than any of God's power. While we know that we are weak, pride deceives us into worshipping our own strength. But on the contrary, the Gospel shows us who we are and cuts us down to humbly acknowledge our weaknesses and the all-sufficient grace of God which is applied to our lives. So the root of the problem of God not being in all we do is that we fail to have a true sense and appreciation for the Gospel in our lives. Therefore, as Christians, we must always have a keen awareness of the Gospel's truth and power in all that we do whether we feel physically confident and capable or weak and helpless. The Gospel must prevail in our lives!