"The Gingerbread Man"

"The Gingerbread Man"

"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18

The Bible says that the Lord uses foolish things to confound the wise.  Well, He spoke to me through one of those "foolish" things the other morning. Let me share it with you.   

He reminded me of the children's fairy tale, "The Gingerbread Man".  I had to look the story up because it has been years since I read it.  The story starts off with an old man and his wife.  The wife made some gingerbread and cut it in the shape of a gingerbread man.  When the gingerbread was finished baking, it jumped out of the oven and started running. (He wasn't going to let them eat him.) The old man and woman started chasing it.  The horse, the cow, the pigs and the chickens all ran after him.  The more they chased him the more he would say, "Run, run as fast as you can.  You can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man".  Finally, he got tired and wanted to rest.  A little further he came to a river.  He wanted to cross.  While he was trying to figure out a way across, he heard a voice.  It was a fox.  The fox offered to take him across.  The gingerbread was suspicious and reluctant, but after continuing to listen to the fox's convincing words he decided to let the fox take him across the river.  He jumped on the fox's back and began to cross the river.  After a while the fox told him to get further up on his neck because his back was hurting.  The gingerbread man complied.  Then the fox convinced him to get on his snout because his neck was hurting, which he did.  The the fox tilted back his head and gobbled the gingerbread man down. 

The gingerbread man was full of pride.  He bragged that no one could catch him and no one was going to eat him because they weren't able to run faster than he could.  But then, he met a fox.  The fox used cunning, crafty and convincing words to persuade the gingerbread man to trust him.  The fox had plans to eat/destroy him all along.  He deceived the gingerbread man into believing he was only out to help him.  The same thing that happened to the gingerbread man can happen to us.  Pride will deceive you into believing that "it won't happen to me".   

Pride goes before destruction.  Pride makes you vulnerable to deception.  It causes you to let down your guard.  It gives place to the deceiver.  And it will destroy you in the end.  We must pray and repent individually and as a nation of pride.  Pride got satan kicked out of heaven.  Pride was one of the sins that God destroyed Sodom because of. (Ezekiel 16:49)  God opposes the proud. (James 4:6)  

Ask Holy Spirit to search your heart and reveal any pride that may be lurking within.  When He shows you, repent!!  Don't hold on to it.  Surrender it to the Lord.  Ask for forgiveness and turn from it.  


Have a great day.  Don't be like the gingerbread man.  Repent of pride.