(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.”
