Haughty

Before a downfall the heart is haughty,
but humility comes before honor.  - Proverbs 18:12

There's our nemesis again, pride.  Before we fall, our heart is proud.  It rest in its own accomplishments, it thinks it has done a great thing, it believes it has made itself secure, it believes it is better than others because of what it is.  All of these things are described by Solomon in Ecclesiastes as vanity.  It is all traits of death.  

Only a fool doesn't recognize that at his birth he was given a breath of air.  Before that, a heartbeat.  These gifts were free and one day they'll be taken.  Every person was given the same thing. Everyone has a different path, some hard and some not, but everywhere is the same God.  Every gift is from above and those gifts are the thins that truly satisfy. A joyous heart, a soul that is full and doesn't have voids that can't be filled, love for yourself and then others, the desire to help others, and humility.

Unless we become low we won't be the best Jesus taught.  Be humble and be excited that God uses even you.  When you discover that God has used you, led you to wisdom to share, provided a glimpse into Himself, rejoice at the blessing!  We are then honored more then than from a thousand man-made trophies.

Let's be careful to look for and see pride in our life then move to absolve it lest we needlessly take a fall.