Title

Man’s Greatest Sin

Scripture
The most proud shall stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up
(Jeremiah 50:32)
Devotional
When asked what he thought was mankind’s greatest sin, the evangelist Billy Graham replied in a word, “Pride.” It was pride that caused Lucifer to fall and become known as Satan. It was pride that caused Saul, Israel’s first king to lose his kingdom to a humble shepherd boy named David. If you look back on the failures of your life, you will most likely find that they were brought about by pride. The book of Proverbs clearly reveals, “Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” Therefore, never allow haughtiness to control your decisions. Seek to serve rather than to be served. Seek to honor others and God will honor you. Instead of being hard hearted and thin skinned, become tender hearted and thick skinned. Be a giver of life, instead of a taker. Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord and He will exalt you in due season. Seek His glory and He will glorify you. When you find yourself stumbling, check your level of pride.
Text For The Day
Jeremiah 50:32: “The most proud shall stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up.”
Thought For The Day

“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand, which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.”  Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of a day of National Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, 1863

Questions To Ponder
Morning Study Guide
Defining:  “Pride”: Inordinate self-esteem. It has lost this definition as of late and has somewhat come to mean, being pleased with, etc. I do not think that we have a one-word expression to express being pleased with oneself or another, maybe: thankful, appreciative, etc. 
 
Referencing: “The pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever,” 1 John 2:16-17.
 
Applying: Watch out for the pride of life and seek to humble yourself under the mighty hand of God.