“Pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverse mouth I hate.” Proverbs 8:13. Pride is a sword that wounds the person who uses it along with those against whom it is used. Arrogance robs us of all God longs to give us, but “by humility and the fear of the Lord are riches […]
“God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” James 4:6. When successful, we may lose sight of our own frailty and allow our hearts to fill with destructive pride. James pointed us away from the danger of pride by pointing us to humility and to God. Our achievements, success, or greatness are not […]
“You in faithfulness have afflicted me.” Psalm 119:75. God brings our sins to the surface of our consciousness in order to remove them from our lives. He carefully applies pressure just where it’s needed. Never does He arbitrarily break us. On the contrary, His plan is to work on our sinful self-sufficiency, greed, lust, and […]
“…your Father, who sees in secret, shall reward you openly.” Matthew 6:4. In Matthew 6, Jesus warned against performing pious deeds in order to receive the praise of others. He said that when the hypocrites give alms, they sound a trumpet “…that they may have glory from men” (vs 2). If we serve for the […]
“…be clothed with humility; for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.” I Peter 5:5. The Bible instructs us to guard against the sin of pride, for by nature we tend to overrate ourselves (Romans 12:3). If we want the Lord’s blessing upon our service, we must put on the cloak of […]