Proverbs 16:18 18 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall
This proverb never fails, and God doesn't use the word destruction lightly.
It should be more ominous to us, we should fear it but we don't. Pride is somehow subtle and seductive to us and accepted with a hint of self sufficiency, but that doesn't alter this proverb.
Pride is one of the most destructive forces on earth. It has destroyed things in each of our lives, and in the lives around us. We have to learn to see it as the disease it is. It is insidious, never satisfied, and uncontrollable.
Pride is part of our DNA. It was the original sin, and it comes as "standard equipment" when we are born in sin.
It takes a rebirth to remove it. We can not be fixed, we have to be replaced. ..." I no longer live, but Christ lives in me." (Galatians 2:20) "He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 3:30)
Our only hope is a rebirth into the freedom of the Cross.
Let's recognize the destructive power of Pride and allow the Holy Spirit to wash and renew us until we see others as more important than ourselves.
....the only other option leads to destruction.
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