I used to be a real people- pleaser, I still enjoy pleasing others but now I know God is the One I need to please.  Pride is a sneaky fellow but when it has been injured it is seen as what it is, self has taken a blow and the only cure is to ask our wonderful Lord to forgive us our sin and to remember to do as unto God and to give Him all the glory.

Feathers Fall from the Caps

Feathers fall from the caps of those who put them there to glorify self.
The winds of life blow them out.
It is a better story told,
When you give God all the glory to hold.
Pride causes a stain to appear,
It is a sinful stain that does not easily disappear.
When you begin to be puffed up remember one thing,
When the air is released it is not a pretty thing.
Allow life to take its steps in God’s time;
When in the Spirit’s flow, with God’s will you are aligned.
He places upon your head the favor that satisfies.
And one day a crown that your life testifies.
Take care when applause comes;
Remember to lift praise to God’s Son.
He is the righteousness within,
He is the finisher of the work He begins.
All glory to Jesus, the One you desire to love, to serve, and adore.
He is the King of kings and the One you are waiting for.
So when a feather falls from your cap do not despair,
God replaces it with a jewel on a heavenly crown when you meet Him there.

Romans 11:36
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

Proverbs 11:2
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

2 Timothy 4:8
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.