Psalm 59:12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

Pride kills relationship. I know because I have been on both sides in the death of relationship.

Have you ever been around someone who is so arrogant that they have no tolerance for hearing the words of other people? They will cut you off, correct you, and treat you as insignificant. There is no value in relationship if you are not able to express yourself. There is no empathy, no tolerance, and no warmth in the countenance of the proud.

Sadly the hardest of all the things Jesus asks of us is to be humble. The proud run right over you and will not give credence to your witness. We are told to love all people but some make it very difficult. So what are we to do?

Mark 6:11 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

Leave them to God. He will deal with them just as He dealt with me. If God cannot reach them, then this is their fate and it is not a sin on your part to give them to God.

Isaiah 38:2-3 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

Show God your heart through prayer in those moments.

Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

I had gone to Sunday school and church, I had read my bible and some recognized I had a good and proper understanding of the bible.

God did not speak to me until my heart was broken.

That is my experience. Is it yours? I am not saying it has to be, I don’t have the right to tell God how to reach you. Telling you how to hear God is playing God with your salvation and that isn’t right.

Jeremiah 3:23a Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains:

It isn’t what you can see that saves you.

Isaiah 25:9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

It took me some time to recognize that salvation belongs to the Lord. It is His salvation. Yes it is free but how to attain unto that salvation is not up to me. He knows you best and if there is going to be any acceptance of this gracious salvation, He will lead you in ways that might not fit my experience.

There are however some that will have to come to terms with His salvation exactly the same way it happened for me. A broken spirit, not the kind that is of God but more like that of a wild stallion, a spirited animal that will allow no man to ride him. A broken and contrite heart, one that has failed to find pleasure in the emptiness of self-seeking, always hungry and never satisfied.

Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

He broke the old one before giving me a new one.