ABOUT HOW IT COMES DOWN TO PRIDE.

"What is it that's driving you? Is it perfectionism? That's pure ego. You'll self-destruct. Confess perfectionism to God and ask Him for deliverance. Is it desire for excellence "for the sake of your witness?" Whose excellence, yours or God's? Is it love of money? This is so serious it's frightening. Jesus says you cannot serve both God and money; you must choose... wrestle that one to the ground and have it done forever..." A. Ortlund

"Do you think anything concerning you right now is too small?
your house.
your reputation.
your influence.
your job.
your family (you want a spouse or more children?)
your circle of friends.
your salary.
your life.

Ps. 131 "Lord, my heart is not haughty. nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I concern myself with great matters, nor with things too profound for me..."

God's leash isn't too tight - our hearts are too proud. We think we deserve more - self image has greater expectations - these attitudes are the very grease on which we slide into self-pity, discontentment, ungratefulness, misery.

Fix your eyes on Jesus - and YOUR eyes become smaller and smaller. What is our stature, our purity, our power, our excellence compared to His?"

A. Ortlund