Day 157 The Great Vice not just mine but all of us
Rant and Politics today! I read an article today that just makes so much sense to me.
Okay a general election is coming and either Barak Obama or Mitt Romney will be the next president of the United States.
Are you ever going to have a candidate that you align with 100%?
I just donated to the Romney campaign. Why? Obama failed. Plain and simple. If he was a CEO and met with the board to review his success of turning a company around, the board members would realized they hired an amateur in a time that called for turn around leadership.
Don't get me wrong, no matter who is president over the next 4 years, so much change and hope is needed, I don't know how faithful I will be that we can slow down our escalating issues. That being said, we have a better chance to fire Obama and bring in a Man who has proven experience to lead and turn failings into success.
I believe as Americans, we have become overly dependent on the Government to solve our problems and hold them responsible for our success and failures. I am not a doomsdayer person. I always bet on a recovery. The end of the world can only happen once so I just play the odds of recovery.
However, we can't sit idle and let it happen. We must stop the madness.
Stop Condemning success and wealth! I never got a job from a poor man. Wealth and success = more jobs. Saying we need more jobs and we should punish the rich is insane. Yes we have bad apples but it isn't because of success and wealth it is because of PRIDE!
The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means “hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.”
Enmity toward our fellowmen. We are tempted daily to elevate ourselves above others and diminish them.
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others. In the words of C. S. Lewis: “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. … It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.” (Mere Christianity, New York: Macmillan, 1952, pp. 109–10.)
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves. Most of us consider pride to be a sin of those on the top, such as the rich and the learned, looking down at the rest of us. There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in so many ways, such as faultfinding, gossiping, backbiting, murmuring, living beyond our means, envying, coveting, withholding gratitude and praise that might lift another, and being unforgiving and jealous.
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. “How everything affects me” is the center of all that matters—self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
Pride results in secret combinations which are built up to get power, gain, and glory of the world. This fruit of the sin of pride, namely secret combinations, brings down free nations!
Another face of pride is contention. Arguments, fights, unrighteous dominion, generation gaps, divorces, spouse abuse, riots, and disturbances all fall into this category of pride.
Contention in our families drives the Spirit of love and support away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts. The scriptures tell us that “only by pride cometh contention.” (Prov. 13:10; see also Prov. 28:25.)
When pride has a hold on our hearts, we lose our independence of the world and deliver our freedoms to the bondage of menÂ’s judgment.
No matter who the next President will be, there are rugged days ahead. It is time for every man who wishes to do his duty to get himself prepared–physically, spiritually, and psychologically–for the task which may come at any time, as suddenly as the whirlwind.
Time and Time again, Obama has divided us and uses Pride to do it.
I am voting for Romney but that's not all. I will look in the mirror and pray that I rid myself of my vices. Pride is the universal sin, the great vice. I quit nicotine thinking that was my great vice...Pride bleeds into all vices! Americans need to stand with strong backs and shoulders to support our constitution. We are the light on the hill. We must rid ourselves of Pride. In short, you can start by voting for Romeny and hold your chins up, while keeping your nose down.
