The Cure for Pride

 

I have watched the debates. I have watched the interviews. I've watched the forums. One overall question remains for me: Who is humble and who is prideful? I'm not saying here, but I've seen it personified particularly at the forum at Saddleback Church hosted by Rick Warren.

I thought of it again this morning when I found this devo in my inbox. I believe when it is all said and done, our greatest failures in life are not going to be because we didn't do this well enough or that well enough, gave enough, studied enough, served enough. It is going to be whether or not we fell flat on our faces, bowed low, and admitted in sincere humility that without Christ we are nothing.

THE CURE FOR PRIDE

Those who are slaves to pride do anything to maintain the illusion that they are more capable, more worthy, and more significant than others. Pride prompts people to do any number of horrible acts to those they think are lesser beings than themselves. Pride is the original sin—it was Satan's sin in heaven and the sin he promotes among human beings (see Isaiah 14:13). And pride before God is absurd as well as deadly. "The Lord sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground," says Psalm 147:6.

The cure for pride is cultivating humility. Humility is being honest about who we really are before God. Humility is recognizing who God is: The King of kings and the Lord of lords. Being empty before God is the only way he can fill us with himself.

From Zondervan's New Women's Devotional Bible, NIV

Have a blessed day!
Dori