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The Price of Pride


                                                                                                                
      

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Scripture "Pride goes before destruction and haughtiness (arrogance, self-importance, contempt, vanity, conceit, pomposity) before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 NLT

 Before destruction there is more than likely pride. The writer is telling us of the price of pride which can cost a man everything including his life. The writer also shares with us in Proverbs 8:13 God's take on pride, "To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech" (undisciplined lips). Pride was an archangel's ruin, (satan), as it has been the destruction of untold myriads of men and women throughout the ages. It is for the most part that which precedes a fall. God takes note of the least beginning of unjudged arrogance in each heart. No mind can conceive how hateful it must be to Him. We must not let this area in any of us go unchecked in His presence. Pride is an infectious, insidious sin. It invites God's judgment and destroys everything it touches.

Example Pride has its deep roots in the human soul we are taught to have pride, to be proud and strong, to idolize, have dignity, but the bible describes pride another way it sees it as self-regarding love and self-satisfaction with one's person, status, behavior, reputation and traits as sin. Yes sin! God opposes the proud.

Exercise This week's seed is on pride the effects and the affects of it. Today read Proverbs 16:18-19; I Peter 5:5; James 4:6. Pride will yield a regrettable end. Pride will cause you to go to all ends to prove yourself, excusing your wrongs and fueling your ego. This week journal yourself as we look at the Price of Pride.

Devotion Lord my prayer for today is that I let go of my ego and not overestimate self trying to overcompensate for my actual inadequacies. I know that the one who exalts himself will be humbled and the one who humbles himself will be exalted, so I cast down every argument that comes from the arrogance and pride in me everything that exalts itself against your written word. In Jesus Name Amen.




                                                                                                                                                     























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  1. Sonia M EldridgeApril 4, 2016 at 9:50 AM

    Lord Help Me kill the pride that I carry in my heart. You say in your word that the one that holds on to his life loses it but the one that gives his life ova to you gains life & in order to give anything over I must give over my pride that will bring upon my life a life of humility that is pleasing to you & only you. Help me to stay where you have me planted & the humility to live out your will for my life in JESUS NAME AMEN!!!!

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  2. MommyLuvApril 4, 2016 at 11:19 AM

    Pride is a destructive trait that we must check on a daily basis. While the world works overtime to create a sense of self importance , we must erase its habit. When I see social media i see the effects of pride with the "selfie" plastered all over. Lets try to do a usie, lets seek someone to love, applaud and plaster on social media. God said we must love others, so lets do this.

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  3. UnknownMay 5, 2016 at 2:24 PM

    Amen

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