The Pride That Blocks the Apology

“God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.”

James 4:6

Today I want to remind you of something uncomfortable: sometimes you're not the one who needs to forgive, you're the one who needs to ask for forgiveness. And what's holding you back isn't a lack of love, it's pride. That voice telling you that apologizing first means losing, that explaining yourself means humiliating yourself too much.

I know that weight, because I also chose to humble myself for you. I left the glory of heaven, made myself small, washed feet that had no need to be washed by me. If I, being who I am, bowed down out of love, why would it be too much shame for you to take the first step with someone you love?

Pride promises to protect you, but really it's only isolating you. Every day that passes without that apology is one more brick in a wall separating you from someone important. Tear down that wall today. Humility won't diminish you. It will free you from a weight that only you are carrying.