See No EvilSample

·  “I’m smarter than you.” ·  “I’m better than you.” ·  “I’m right, and you’re obviously wrong.” Have you ever found yourself thinking these things like this in the middle of an argument?Or found yourself thinking those things for no reason at all? Or found yourself thinking these things because you’re a Christian? If you’re a Jesus-follower, it can actually be fairly easy to look at the people around you and assume you’re a better person than others because you’re a Christian. You’re more “spiritual.” You’re closer to God than people at your church, and you’re certainly closer to God than people at your school. You know the types of decisions other people make. And it’s easy to put your good decisions against their bad decisions and think, I’m better than them (only in your head, of course, because you’d never say it out loud). No matter the reason, anytime we walk around and feel like we’re better than someone else, it reveals a problem. Here’s what Paul said about it: If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves (Galatians 6:3 NIV). God cares about people more than anything. God loves you so much that He sent Jesus. What did Jesus do? He demonstrated to the world just how much love God has for us. Then, He died to show how far that love would go. If you’re a Christian, you are following a Person who is FOR people. So when we act as though we’re better than people, we’re doing the opposite of what God stands for. Who are you sometimes tempted to think you’re “above” or better than? Confess that pride to God and ask Him to grow more humility inside of you.