What God’s love is #6: Love Does Not Display Itself Haughtily
- Rick Piña
- May 27, 2012
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 31
(1 Cor 13:4 AMP) Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.
Haughty: To be condescendingly proud or to believe others to be inferior.
People who walk in the love of God do not put people down and make them feel inferior.
Have you ever met a person that seemed to talk down to everyone?
People who talk down to others often cause bitterness, resentment; and offense.
When you are haughty you:
1. Destroy your witness.
Far too many believers leave church, only to treat people with disrespect.
When you look down and mistreat others, you hinder your ability to reach them.
Jesus said, “In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven” (Mat 5:16). Instead of allowing light to shine, you are become a conduit for something else.
2. Put yourself on the wrong side of God.
Jesus said, “Woe unto the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!” (Mat 18:7). Never be the one who causes offenses.
Never be the person who causes offense.
Haughty people cause harm and not help.
They lower other’s self-esteem, instead of helping raise it.
They tear down instead of building up.
They put down instead of encouraging.
*** When you walk in His love you seek to be a blessing and not a burden.
You seek to build up and not tear down.
You seek to walk in peace and not offense.
You seek to make others feel superior and not inferior.
3. Miss a golden opportunity.
The old adage, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” is simply not true. Words can hurt.
When you talk down to people you can actually help destroy their dreams!
Be cognizant today of how you talk to and deal with people.
When dealing with a Private or a General, a pauper or a President, your subordinate or your superior; always remember to treat them as God would have you to treat them and to be a blessing and not a burden!
(Prov 18:21 KJV) Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
(Prov 15:4 MSG) “Kind words heal and help; cutting words wound and maim.”
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