The Phrase

"What you feed grows, what you starves dies" would be a common phrase that I heard from my youth pastor while attending my youth group. She used this phrase pertaining to sin, saying that if one continually feeds the small desires of sin, the desire will gradually grow bigger and bigger, thus leading into deeper and deeper sin. However, if one consistently trains themself through rigorous discipline, the desires of giving into that particular sin will die.
While laying in my bed jet-lagged, looking like i'm undergoing some type of detox, this phrase became a resounding anthem pertaining to some things I am now experiencing.
Halfway through my first semester at Zion, God confronted me on some pride issues in my life. There appears to a process that goes something like this: sin, being exposed to your sin, the choice of staying in that sin or getting out of it, then (if you chose to get out of that sin), applicational steps to starving your desire to sin.
Right now, I am going through the last step (this does not mean that I have arrived, instead, I must continually starve these desires).
Today has been a day where I have thought of ways as to how I could discipline myself toward starving the lochness monster of pride in my life. I won't write in this blog the ideas I came up with (which aren't really my ideas to begin with, but some things I found in the Bible), but if you have any questions just let me know.
He has continued to be gracious to me, especially in this area of my life.
My prayer is to live a life of purity, humility, and holiness. Pride is the exact opposite of Jesus. "The great sin" is this lingering stench that contaminates everything it touches. The only remedy for this stench is the blood of Christ.
I must rid myself of my narcissistic tendencies and embrace the same humility as Christ.

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, an comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. --Philippians 2:1-11