2. SHARP DECLINE IN HAPPINESS
There has been a sharp decline in happiness among girls and young women in the UK in the last decade, with the majority of them blaming exams and social media for causing stress, a major survey has found.
Just one in four (25%) girls and young women between the ages of seven and 21 described themselves as “very happy” in the latest girls’ attitudes survey for the Girlguiding organisation – down from 41% in

3. Tim Keller puts it brilliantly……
He says ‘The Bible says we were made originally to live forever, but because we’ve turned away from God now we’re fading. We were made to never be forgotten. We were made to stand in the presence of God and get his favor. We were made to last, but because we’ve turned away from God we know we’re dying, we know we’re fading, and we know we’re going to be forgotten. We don’t feel real. We feel like a wave upon the sand. We don’t feel like a moonbeam in the hand and all that.’

4. “Pride in the religious sense is an arrogant refusal to let God be God
“Pride in the religious sense is an arrogant refusal to let God be God. It is to grab God’s status for one’s self. Lewis Smedes
“Every time you meet a new person, you are unconsciously wondering, ‘How can this person contribute to my need to prove that I count.’ Life becomes a constant battle to use people to bolster your own self.” : Pride, is a hunger for glory, a need for respect, a need to be assured we count.’

5. Philippians
2 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit,if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

6. The only thing that can kill you, the only thing that can destroy you eternally, is a lack of humility. You can lack almost any other thing, but not that, because that’s what connects you to God.

7. JONATHAN EDWARDS 18TH c Pride is 4 things 1. Driveness 2. Scornfulness
3.Willfulness
4. Self conciousness

8. 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,     did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing     by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,     being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man,     he humbled himself     by becoming obedient to death—         even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place     and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,     in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,     to the glory of God the Father.