Title
Pride Vs. Humility
Scripture
The pride of your heart has deceived you.
(Obadiah 1:3)
Devotional
Of all the great roots of sin, pride is the most deceptive of all. Pride causes us to think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think. Pride is intoxicating. It will put you into a stupor and cause you to stumble and fall. It numbs the mind and hardens the heart. Pride is worse than any cancer. It destroys while its host thinks that all is well. Pride causes its owner to think that it is the rest of the world that is sick. It will cause you to think that you are somebody when the world and God knows that you are not. Pride's goal is to bring shame. Its host thinks that it is to shame others, but it will turn and destroy. When you find yourself thinking little of others, it is pride that is making you think too much of yourself. Pride must be destroyed before it destroys us. We can destroy pride by focusing on Christ, confessing our sins and serving others. Pride hates humility. Nevertheless humility will be the victor.
Text For The Day
Obadiah 3: The pride of your heart has deceived you.
Thought For The Day
“God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.” Guideposts Magazine
Questions To Ponder
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In what or whom are we to boast? Consider Jeremiah 9:24 NIV.
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How would you define pride and humility?
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Does not the prideful know that he is prideful and can the humble consider himself humble?
Morning Study Guide
Defining: “Heart pride”: That deep-down root of arrogance, haughtiness, and conceit, that which causes us to think more highly of ourselves than we ought, that place in us that deceives us through and through.
Referencing: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9
Applying: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, but do not trust in your own heart, it will deceive you.