Mid-Week Encouragement October 2nd, 2024
Proverbs 16:18
"Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling."
I have always considered pride a switch that shuts off your ability to serve the Lord. Though many believers struggle with pride, those who suffer from it are the ones who submit to it. Pride is NOT the same as a "good self-image," because we are all something in the Lord. We are "the righteousness of God in Christ" (2 Corinthians 5:21)
When Jesus washed the feet of the disciples, that was humility, not thinking "lowly" of Himself. Humility is not thinking lowly of yourself; it is not thinking of yourself at all.
Pride is not the same as taking pride in your work, either. When someone is proud of their hard work or accomplishments, a "job well done" is not the pride the scriptures warn us about. You can be proud of your children getting good grades without it being a sin.
The pride we are warned about is an attitude of independence from God, turning from His word and will to follow your own. Ungratefulness to God, or thinking you are better than others. Those who think they are better than others will use people to get what they want. C. S. Lewis wrote "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only having more of it than the next man."
We are told in Proverbs 6:16-17 the seven things God hates, and number one is pride.
"Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh; Assuredly, he will not be unpunished." Proverbs 16:5
Pride ruins the heart, divides people, brings dishonor, and destroys the soul. Pride populates hell.
"Yahweh will tear down the house of the proud," Proverbs 15:25a
"My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their evil ways, then I will listen from heaven, I will forgive their sin, and I will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14
We often apply this scripture to nations. I just did so a few weeks ago in one of my sermons. However, if we read the wording, it is a plea to individuals. Yes, the Lord promises to heal your land, but in the case of pride, this scripture is a remedy to heal all that was lost during your folly.
Financial ruin. Damaged relationships. Broken emotional state. Whatever pride takes away, God says He can restore, if one would just "humble themselves, seek Him, and turn away from their evil ways."
Romans 12:3 "For through the grace given to me I say to each one among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think;"
Matthew 23:12 "And whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted."
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