BEWARE OF SPIRITUAL PRIDE BY MGL

The book Imitation of Christ reads: “1. Son, it is more useful and safer for you to cover up the grace of devotion, and not to praise you or talk much about it, or to esteem it much; but to recognize yourself small, and to fear, because it has been given to you without deserving it.” "If we have any holiness, it is thanks to God. Not thanks to us. Without God, we are weak and sinners. We seek for worldly things. Any virtue we have, it has been given to us through God’s mercy. Never think that you are a saint, because even if you are, it is thanks to God’s holiness that is within you." The book further reads: “It is not good to be very attached to this condition of feeling holy; because you can move quickly in another opposite. Think when you are in God's grace, how miserable and poor you tend to be without it.” Whenever the enemy tempts you to feel superior to others for your religious actions, think about how empty you were when you didn't have God's mercy. Never accept for yourself any praise given to you, rather pass them to God in your heart. Say within: If it were not for God I would have nothing good in me. Everything is God's grace. Whenever someone gets on track in his spiritual growth, the enemy prepares to derail him. And he uses his old tricks already known by good spiritual directors, and also takes advantage of the weaknesses of each person, these are not known to his spiritual director unless he confesses them with total transparency. Those who may have it refuse to be guided by a spiritual director are easy and effortless prey for the enemy to divert them. It's like a 6-year-old playing soccer against Lionel Messi. In the art of diverting those who want to walk with God the devil has thousands of years of experience and millions of souls in his favor. Not to let yourself be guided is to be deceived and diverted. Remember: You are 6 years old against Messi's experience when you believe yourself to be self-sufficient in the spiritual walk." Never have spiritual pride. Never fall into this temptation.