We as humans tend to forget God when

things are smooth sailing and only

remember when things are rough. When
we are having a hard time, we tend to
wholeheartedly pray to God and ask for
help, but when things go our way, we
tend to forget God—especially when we
are blessed with achievements and
worldly honor. We tend to become
proud of ourselves and forget how God
was the one who made all these things
possible.

We are often taught to be thankful and

appreciative during preaching. Simple
words like “thank you” and “I appreciate
you” can already show gratefulness.
Easy, right? But why is it that we still find
it difficult to be thankful and appreciative? Why do we find the uttering of the words “thank you” so
difficult? Most of the times, it’s because of our pride. We fail to realize how unworthy we are of people’s
kindness and how powerless we are without God’s help. We tend to think that receiving people’s
kindness and blessings are normal and that it really is the way it should be. We sometimes think too
highly of ourselves that we find saying “thank you” quite a struggle.

Forgiving people as well as, asking for people’s forgiveness can also be quite hard to do especially if we
let pride rule our actions. Sometimes it’s not because of the bad deed that was done to us that prevents
us to forgive someone. There are times that it is because of our pride.

Pride is also a huge obstacle in learning and also growing spiritually. It’s either we can’t acknowledge the
person whom God is using to teach you about something, or you think you’re already good enough and
there’s nothing wrong with us.

That is why