Sera speaks: "Pride blinds you."

Sera is a theatre production student from La'Salle, she never fails to inspire others around her with her deep convictions and carefree expression of God's love. She's blessed with a beautiful singing voice too!

Hey there everyone! =)

I'm back from awhile of absence. Nothing technical went wrong, just that my heart was facing a bit of turbulance.

Want to share with you my quiet-time that I planned to do for my heart to change, which really inspired me and got me back on track.

After 6 months of consistancy to not fall into an emotional spiral, I finally crashed and burned. Many tiny little battles I was fighting was getting a little too overwhelming for me. And it took just one more tiny little thing to tip the scale. My Pride. Which has nowadays become an extremely obvious sin to notice.

Took out my TouchPoints and searched humility. Read these, and they really made me think...

Daniel 10:12 NLT

"Then he said, 'Don't be afraid Daniel. Since the first day you began to pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard from heaven. I have come to answer your prayer."

God Acknowledges the prayer of the Humble.

My pride stopped me from that. It stopped me from seeking and requesting from God. And even when I did pray and have requests from God, they weren't acknowledges because I was in this state of pride and God doesn't acknowledge sin.

Isaiah 57:15

"I refresh the humble."

God gives Joy and Refreshment to the Humble.

My pride blinded me from seeing, feeling, hearing anything that was joyful or refreshing. it stopped me from seeing God and seeing what God wanted to give me. Freely. God is not seen because I wore sin as a bilndfold.

Psalm 138:6

"Though the Lord is great, he cares for the humble, but He keeps His distant from the proud."

God takes care of the Humble.

When I choose to walk on my own and deal with situations by myself, I fall. I hurt myself. I feel insecure. I feel angered. I feel frustrated. I don't feel taken care of. Because God only takes care of those who know they can't take care of themselves.

Psalm 147:6

"The Lord supports the humble, but He brings the wicked down into the dust."

God Supports the Humble.

I felt like I was in the dust. I just felt so lost and so prone to feeling so irrational and emotional. I was very unstable because of this pride I had. The lack of humility to say, "God you are proud of me for who I am, I don't need to worry about that and feel threatened by anyone."

I couldn't bring myself to say that because I didn't trust that God had the control. I relied on my own control of my life.

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It wasn't like I had a revelation. I just needed to put in a little effort to pull myself back onto the right path. And once I start thinking of wanting to pull myself together, God comes to the rescue and swoops me off my feet and He throws me with encouragement. =)

Pride blinded me from my vulnerability to temptation and led me to repeat the sins of my past.

I was so blind to what I was doing, feeling and saying. And all I want to do now is be humble. And have the joy of knowing that God wants me to be humble so He can lavish me with love. =)

Isn't that great? To have confidence that when you let go, someone so real is right there waiting to catch you and carry you through a journey.

All He asks for is humility... =)

Love you so much....

Sera