pride striking again and again

I was fortunate enough to grow up with a father who was a good mechanic. I would have friends that would have car trouble, and for the most part I was able to fix a lot of it myself. There were always people with little things wrong that would come to me to get me to fix them. I did so graciously and regularly. One particular time I had a friend with a problem with his truck, I went to his house and started taking some things apart and working on it. I worked for almost an hour just getting things apart and got ready to put it all back together, each piece right where it had been, the new pieces right where they had been needed and so on. We cranked up his truck to test drive it and it was still running just as bad as before. So, I fought it for another good hour or two before I finally caved in. I bit the bullet, sucked up my pride and called my dad. He rode by my friend's house and had the truck running like new in about 20 minutes. What was the problem, why did I work so hard the whole time to fix it myself? Pride, I didn't want to admit I was inferior to the problem, or that my dad would be able to get the job done.
This Sunday we will be talking again about pride, something that Paul liked to address especially in the lives of believers. In James 4 it says "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."
If you really break down this one sentence it is about the Gospel and God's grace being poured out on us. If God opposes the proud, and God loves His children what is this verse saying to us? Think about that moment when you accepted Christ as your Lord and Saviour. What were you really saying? What was really at war inside your heart? It was your dependency, when we get saved we are admitting our dependency on God and His saving grace and throwing all of our dependency out the window. You are admitting that you are a sinner(for some this is not an easy thing to do, for me quite simple) and that you cannot combat that alone. Your pride is shot, you have thrown in the towel so to speak. You are realizing your needs and the only place that they can be met.
Just like me trying to fix that truck two things are at battle within your heart. You are striving to fix a problem with sin and emptiness in your heart and you are realizing there is a simple solution, a Savior in Jesus Christ.
GOd opposes the proud, in this instance those who won't admit there's a problem and won't submit to Him to have the problem fixed. But He pours out grace to the humble the moment they admit they need His grace He pours it out like rain!
Thank GOd we serve a God who understands us and meets our needs with loving Grace!
Thanks for reading and have a great day!