“God opposes, resists, abhors, tears down, brings down. God is resisting you and you have some humiliation coming, which is the process of becoming humble, because he loves you and those around you so much. For you to know you have even a little bit of pride and not care about it, is to raise your fist in God’s face and say, “Hey God, I don’t care that I’m regularly walking and living in this sin of pride and I’m okay with not having all that great of a relationship with you either”. It’s just the way I am and you’ll just have to deal with it”. But if you want to get along with me you’ve just got to grow a pair. Įver heard this? “Yeah, maybe I’ve got a little pride. No! W e should try not to sin because it hurts our relationship with God. My dad used to say, “The reason we shouldn’t sin isn’t because the Bible says not to or because it’s wrong or because we could get caught or because it could mess up our future or because we’ll miss out on blessings. Pride is one of the most destructive and heinous sins you can commit. You’ll see your relatives, spouse, boss, employees, friends and president all over this list. Most people are pretty humble in most categories and just prideful in one or two. There are about 24 different categories one could be prideful in. Could it be that God is resisting you in your relationships or business or church or whatever area of your life? Only by pride comes contention. He doesn't bodyslam the proud, he just resists them, but he gives grace (free gifts that we didn't deserve or earn, unmerited favor) to the humble. It was like his palm was firmly planted in my forehead as I walked through life and it was really uncomfortable. She said, "Oh no! I didn't realize I was so prideful either. And then said, "Oh, and there were some other signs that I found on the list." Her jaw dropped as I read hers. I didn't know that's what pride looked like." So I asked her to pray for me. Listen to this list of signs of pride that I found." I started reading my list to her and she laughed and said, "Wow! You are prideful.
So I went back to my wife and said, "Hey honey, I think I found out the root of all of our problems in marriage and work and ministry and all that. I put them into 4 groups Pride of Spirituality, Pride of Knowledge, Pride of Power and Pride of Appearance. I read about 40 articles and lists written by well-known psychologists, theologians, pastors and even the Wikipedia entry and consolidated them all here.
Now I really wondered, What are examples of pride? So, I googled “Signs of pride list” and “Spiritual pride” and couldn’t believe what I found. That got me to thinking that maybe my definition of pride wasn’t very complete. They’re the nice friendly helpful ones at work. You're not cocky and flashy and arrogant and all that." But later that same week, I was reading a book that said the most prideful people aren’t usually the bragging arrogant types. So I told my wife what he said and she said, "Ah, come on. A friend told me the other day that I’m a very prideful man, and I said to myself, "Dude's just jealous".
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