Ever notice how some people are always right. No matter what, no matter the circumstances, or no matter the facts, they are right, even when they are wrong.

What is the basic or underlying problem? One word: pride.

Listen to the words of Jesus:

“Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?”²

“Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me.””³

“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”⁴

The cross destroys pride and replaces it with humility. A person who is always right has not personally experienced the humbling of the cross. He does not know the mind (or attitude) of Christ. He has rejected the words of Paul:

“Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.”⁵

How much better would be our homes and our churches if people would indeed “in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.”

1. Job 12:2
2. Matthew 16:24–26, NKJV
3. Mark 10:21, NKJV
4. Philippians 2:5–8, NKJV
5. Philippians 2:1–3, NKJV

Before a person can enter into the kingdom of heaven, he must first admit that no matter how much he may have in the material realm or psychological realm, he is absolutely and totally spiritually bankrupt and a beggar before God.  If he doesn’t see that, he will never, ever get into the kingdom of heaven.

I’ve often said that I am just one beggar showing another beggar where to find food. Do you see yourself as a beggar in need of the Bread of Heaven?

-Adrian Rogers, Love Worth Finding