pride. “And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind” (Eccl. 4:4). I was not being true to myself or the way God made me by entertaining such lofty notions. I was only wanting to make my peers envious by my accomplishments. At the judgment seat of Christ the truth about all of us will come out. There will be no pretense then. It is best to accept our limitations and stop pretending. And God will begin to use