Reading President Bensons talk took me back to my mission, my mission president required that we read that talk a few times while out on my mission in London, England. Before my mission I had never read it and since coming home I have gone through my notes or read it a few times but I love this talk so I was excited to dive back into this week. In the world we live in there is pride all around us, in every person there is a little bit of pride that pokes at us when we want something or when we choose to hide something from another. I love when Elder Benson says “Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.” I think thats what makes things so difficult because we can see pride so vivid in someone but when we take a look at ourselves, we justify or miss why we would be prideful in that situation . Like the late Michael Jackson says, “I’m Starting with the man in the mirror, I’m asking him to change his ways” (Man in the mirror, Jackson). We truly need to look at ourselves first and acknowledge that we are imperfect. Without that acknowledgment of pride in ourselves we cannot better ourselves and shake off the natural man. Jesus Christ gave us a higher law and it was to be above pride, not only should you not have adultery but you shouldn’t even lust after another women. Its that added law which is difficult for anyone to overcome. Pride covers a wide range of areas, like disobedience, selfishness, envying, coveting, anger, the list goes on and on.
While there are so many way to be prideful, we can overcome it. We can follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost and Repent, things which will provide true joy and happiness. This might be the most difficult thing we can overcome in life, is putting off Pride.
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