READ: Romans 2:1-11
«For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry…» - 1 Samuel 15:23
A young tree can be bent easily. An old tree is hard, stubborn and unbendable. When you are humble like a child, you are soft and bendable. When you lose this humility, you become hard, unyielding and stubborn. The more childlike you are, the more easily you change your mind. The more childlike you are, the more you accept and believe what you are told.
Young people flow along easily. The more of an adult you are, the less you change your mind. You must endeavour never to be hard and stubborn because it shows that you have moved away from childlike humility. Hardness and stubbornness are terrible symptoms of pride. These are not good things! You must do everything to distance yourself from the picture of the unbendable, unyielding, stubborn, hardened, resistant, obstinate and implacable personality!
Show me a stubborn woman and I will show you a proud woman! Show me a stubborn and unyielding wife and I will show you a proud wife!
It i s better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. - Proverbs 21: 19
Show me a man who will never change, never yield, never accept, never bend and never agree and you are looking at a very proud man.
As coals are to burning coals , and wood to f ire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. - Proverbs 26: 21
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