If you think you are something

If you think you are something

For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For each one shall bear his own load. – Galatians 6.3-5

‘If anyone thinks he his something.’ That really says a lot doesn’t it? It is something we are all prone to do at times. We can really think that we are something special at times. We can look at us and others and start to think that we are so much better than others.

Thinking highly of ourselves is a dangerous thing to do. We read in another place ‘let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.’  

Pride is a terribly destructive thing. Ultimately pride will take us to the place where we think we don’t need God anymore. When we think we don’t need God anymore and try to get by on our own strength – when we think we are something – we are going to fail.