January 23 – No Room for Pride

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in scripture and relevant
for today, January 23rd.

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No room for pride.
Have you ever watched someone

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else get rewarded and felt that
tight feeling rise up inside

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you?
Maybe you thought I worked

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harder than that.
I showed up earlier.

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I did more.
And suddenly joy turns into

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comparison and comparison turns
into frustration.

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Those moments reveal something
deep in US cried quietly,

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whispering that we deserve more
than someone else.

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Jesus goes straight for that
heart issue.

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In Matthew chapter 20, he tells
a story about workers hired at

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different times of the day, yet
all receiving the same pay.

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The ones who worked the longest
were offended.

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They didn’t think the owner was
fair, but the owner reminded

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them that he had done nothing
wrong.

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He simply chose to be generous.
That story isn’t really about

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wages.
It’s about grace.

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Race doesn’t operate on a
scoreboard.

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It doesn’t reward seniority or
effort the way humans expect.

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And pride struggles with that
because pride wants credit,

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recognition, and comparison.
Proverbs chapter 6 exposes just

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how serious pride is to God.
It says there are things the

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Lord hates, and the list begins
with haughty eyes.

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Pride sits at the top.
Not violence, not betrayal.

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Pride.
Because pride poisons everything

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it touches.
It turns blessings into

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entitlement.
It turns success into

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superiority.
It turns gratitude into

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resentment.
Pride convinces us that what we

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have is earned and what others
have is undeserved.

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Jesus completely flips that way
of thinking.

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In God’s Kingdom, greatness
isn’t measured by being first or

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doing the most.
It’s measured by humility,

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trust, and a heart that reflects
His generosity.

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The workers who were hired late
didn’t demand anything.

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They simply received what the
Master chose to give.

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That’s grace.
And the early workers lost their

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joy not because they were
treated unfairly, but because

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pride robbed them of gratitude.
This is where it gets personal.

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Pride shows up when we compare
our journey to someone else’s,

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when we struggle to celebrate
another person’s blessing, when

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we quietly believe God owes us
more because of our effort.

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But grace invites us into a
better way, a way where we trust

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God’s goodness, rejoice when
others are lifted, and rest in

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the truth that what he gives is
always right.

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There’s no room for pride in a
heart-shaped by grace, not

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because God wants to shrink you,
but because pride shrinks your

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joy.
Humility, on the other hand,

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frees you.
It lets you celebrate instead of

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compare, It lets you serve
instead of compete, and it keeps

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your heart aligned with God’s
generous nature.

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You don’t lose anything by
laying pride down.

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You gain peace, you gain freedom
and you gain a deeper

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understanding of grace, the kind
that says God has been good to

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me and that is enough.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
your grace that I could never

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earn and your generosity that
never runs out.

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Search my heart and show me
where pride has taken root.

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Help me let go of comparison,
entitlement and resentment.

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Teach me to celebrate others and
to trust that what you give is

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always right.
Shape my heart to be humble,

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grateful and full of love just
like yours.

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In Jesus name, Amen.
What if the ache you feel for

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more is actually God calling you
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intentionality.
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recognize and enjoy His presence
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fullness, strength, and deep
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weary, or simply longing for

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Proverbs chapter 6 verses 16 to
19 World English Bible.

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There are 6 things which Yahweh
hates.

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Yes, 7 which are an abomination
to him, arrogant eyes, a lying

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tongue, hands that shed innocent
blood, a heart that devises

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wicked schemes, feet that are
swift in running to mischief, a

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false witness who utters lies,
and he who sows discord among

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brothers.
Matthew Chapter 20 World English

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Bible For the Kingdom of heaven
is like a man who was the master

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of a household who went out
early in the morning to hire

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laborers for his vineyard.
When he had agreed with the

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laborers for denarius a day, he
sent them into his vineyard.

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He went out about the third hour
and saw others standing idle in

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the marketplace.
He said to them, You also go

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into the vineyard, and whatever
is right I will give you.

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So they went their way again.
He went out about the 6th and

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the 9th hour and did likewise.
About the 11th hour he went out

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and found others standing idle.
He said to them, Why do you

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stand here all day idle?
They said to him, because no one

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has hired us.
He said to them, You also go

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into the vineyard, and you will
receive whatever is right.

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When evening had come, the Lord
of the vineyard said to his

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manager, Call the laborers and
pay them their wages, beginning

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from the last to the first.
When those who were hired at

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about the 11th hour came, they
each received a denarius.

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When the first came, they
supposed that they would receive

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more, and they likewise each
received a denarius.

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When they received it, they
murmured against the master of

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the household, saying, These
last have spent one hour, and

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you have made them equal to us
who have borne the burden of the

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day and the scorching heat.
But he answered one of them,

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Friend, I am doing you no wrong.
Didn’t you agree with me for a

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denarius?
Take that which is yours and go

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your way.
It is my desire to give to this

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last just as much as to you.
Isn’t it lawful for me to do

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what I want to with what I own?
Or is your eye evil because I am

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good?
So the last will be 1st and the

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1st last, for many are called,
but few are chosen.

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As Jesus was going up to
Jerusalem, he took the 12

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disciples aside, and on the way
he said to them, Behold, we are

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going up to Jerusalem, and the
Son of Man will be delivered to

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the chief priests and scribes,
and they will condemn him to

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death, and will hand him over to
the Gentiles to mock, to

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scourge, and to crucify.
And the third day he will be

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raised up.
Then the mother of the sons of

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Zebedee came to him with her
sons kneeling and asking a

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certain thing of him.
He said to her, What do you

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want?
She said to him, Command that

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these my two sons may sit one on
your right hand and one on your

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left hand in your Kingdom.
But Jesus answered, you don’t

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know what you’re asking.
Are you able to drink the cup

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that I am about to drink and be
baptized with the baptism that I

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am baptized with?
They said to him, We are able.

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He said to them, You will indeed
drink my cup and be baptized

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with the baptism that I am
baptized with.

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But to sit on my right hand and
on my left hand is not mine to

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give, but it is for whom it has
been prepared by my father.

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When the 10 heard it, they were
indignant with the two brothers,

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but Jesus summoned them and
said, You know that the rulers

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of the nations Lord it over
them, and they’re great ones.

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Exercise authority over them.
It shall not be so among you,

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but whoever desires to become
great among you shall be your

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servant.
Whoever desires to be first

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among you shall be your bond
servant.

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Even as the Son of Man came, not
to be served, but to serve and

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to give his life as a ransom for
many.

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As they went out from Jericho, a
great multitude followed him.

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Behold, 2 blind men sitting by
the road, when they heard that

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Jesus was passing by, cried out.
Lord, have mercy on us, you son

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of David.
The multitude rebuked them,

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telling them that they should be
quiet, but they cried out even

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more.
Lord, have mercy on us, you son

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of David.
Jesus stood still and called

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them and asked, What do you want
me to do for you?

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They told him, Lord, that our
eyes may be opened.

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Jesus, being moved with
compassion, touched their eyes

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and immediately their eyes
received their sight and they

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followed him.
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