“Therefore, Your Majesty, be pleased to accept my advice: Renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue.” Daniel 4:27

Lord God, I see more and more how pride is a huge part of my internal struggle. My pride is hurt when I am not praised, or noticed, or admired, or respect. It is a blow to pride and it hurts. My proud is stroked when I am praised or noticed or admired or respected. This kind of things strokes my ego and I feel better about myself. Oh God, how corrupt and sinful and proud I am. Break my proud heart. Lead me to bow before you. Do what you must to break my pride so that I depend on you more and seek to love others more deeply. In humility, lead me to lay myself before you. In humility, help me to pour myself out for others, seeking to honor them and to place them on a pedestal. In humility, lead me to seek what is right and to show mercy to all people. Most of all, dear Father, help me to find my sense of value not in what I accomplish or in what people think about me, but in what you have done for me. You have said that I matter to you. Help me to find my value in you and then to honor others more highly than myself. Amen.

Rise up from your repentance and know that your God deeply and dearly loves you. He does receive you as you are. He forgives and values you. He will not cast you out. Rise up from your repentance forgiven. Go out in your forgiveness new. Act justly to the people around you. Love mercy and seek to give it to the people in your life. Walk humbly with God and in all your ways seek to honor him.