10/15/13 DON'T GET TOO BIG FOR YOUR BRITCHES
When you will not yield to the discipline, authority and nurture of the Bible and God's appointed leaders in your life, you have gotten too big for your britches.
When you will not seek or accept Christian counsel, concerning life, marriage, child rearing, interpersonal relationship, finances, career, decision making, you have gotten too big for your britches.
When you will not take reproof, correction, admonition from appointed leadership, you have gotten too big for your britches.
People who are TOO BIG FOR THEIR BRITCHES are filled with PRIDE (EXAGGERATED SELF ESTEEM), and those people live by a different standard than God's standard. They allow, embrace, pursue corruption in their lives.
Proverbs 16:18
(18) Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
The problem with people who are too big for their britches is that they are not satisfied with destroying themselves, they insist on destroying others, usually the people they can bully, including a spouse or children. Their bullying can erupt into uncontrolled chaos and violence.
God has provided Christian leaders to save people from self destructive, self aggrandizement.
Hebrews 13:7
(7) Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Hebrews 13:17
(17) Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
