I pissed off a lot of people

I need to talk about something that almost wrecked me. And I didn't even see it happening because it was dressed up as something spiritual. Pride disguised as discernment. I used to think I could read every room. Every person. Every situation. I'd get a feeling and immediately label it. "God is showing me something about that person." Sometimes it was real. A lot of the time it was my ego wearing a ministry badge. Both feel the same on the surface. Both feel confident. Both feel certain. But only one submits. That's the dividing line. Proverbs 14:12 says there's a way that seems right to a man. It feels right. But the end of that road is death. Not because the feeling wasn't real. Because the feeling wasn't tested. If your "discernment" never submits to Scripture, it isn't discernment. It's self-trust with spiritual language. It cost me relationships. It cost me chances to actually love people. Because I was so busy being "discerning," I forgot to be loving. Real discernment makes you humble. It makes you run to the Word. It makes you more open to being wrong, not less. Pride does the opposite. It isolates you. Makes you defensive. Resists accountability and calls it boundaries. Discernment brings you lower before God. Pride lifts you higher in your own eyes. Here's the test that changed everything for me. One question, every time I had a "discerning" thought: Does this line up with Scripture, or does it just line up with how I feel? Pride says, "I feel it, so it must be God." Discernment says, "God said it, so I submit, even when I don't feel it." If what you're sensing makes you feel above people instead of burdened for them, check the source. The Holy Spirit convicts to restore. Pride convicts to separate. The fruit tells the truth. If you want to grow in real discernment instead of the kind that isolates you, that's what mentorship is for. Every week I sit down with people inside the app and walk through real questions and situations like this. Live, on Zoom. Bring whatever you're wrestling with. L1NK 1N B10 for Group Mentorship