"The pride of your heart has deceived you..." Obadiah 3
Pride. The thing that most people do not think they have, but they really do. The deceitful thing about pride is that it fools us into thinking we are okay--we have arrived--we don't need anyone's help or even God's help. But pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall (Proverbs 16:18). When you have pride, you decide that you don't really need to watch where you are going or what you are doing, so inevitably, you will fall. You will fall and great will be your fall because you were too prideful to admit you needed the Lord. To admit you couldn't do this on your own. I Corinthians 10:12 says, "Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall." Often, everyone else can see pride on a person but that person. We all see pride in each other but somehow miss it in our own hearts. Why? Because it is deceitful. If you knew pride was there and realized how disgusting it is to God, you would get rid of it. But the enemy, the devil, was kicked out of heaven for pride, so he is going to do everything he can to give you pride. He will puff you up. He will have you compare yourself to others, putting others down to magnify yourself. He will try to get you to think that you actually have something to do with the way God uses you. He will try to get you to take some of the glory for the things you achieve or conquer.
Pride.
"A man's pride will bring him low, but the humble in spirit will retain honor." Proverbs 29:23
Pride. The thing that most people do not think they have, but they really do. The deceitful thing about pride is that it fools us into thinking we are okay--we have arrived--we don't need anyone's help or even God's help. But pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall (Proverbs 16:18). When you have pride, you decide that you don't really need to watch where you are going or what you are doing, so inevitably, you will fall. You will fall and great will be your fall because you were too prideful to admit you needed the Lord. To admit you couldn't do this on your own. I Corinthians 10:12 says, "Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall." Often, everyone else can see pride on a person but that person. We all see pride in each other but somehow miss it in our own hearts. Why? Because it is deceitful. If you knew pride was there and realized how disgusting it is to God, you would get rid of it. But the enemy, the devil, was kicked out of heaven for pride, so he is going to do everything he can to give you pride. He will puff you up. He will have you compare yourself to others, putting others down to magnify yourself. He will try to get you to think that you actually have something to do with the way God uses you. He will try to get you to take some of the glory for the things you achieve or conquer.
Pride.
"A man's pride will bring him low, but the humble in spirit will retain honor." Proverbs 29:23
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