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Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began...pride always means enmity...and not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God. C.S. Lewis
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Pride Revisited
July 9, 2008
Those who walk in pride He is able to humble. Daniel 4:35
Nebuchadnezzar learned this truth the hard way. He had been graciously warned in a dream that his fall was immanent. And when Daniel interpreted the dream for him, he indicated that it wasn't too late, that mercy was being offered. "Renounce your sins by doing what is right," he said to the king, " and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity may continue. Daniel 4:27
In his book on PRAYING, J. I. Packer says:
"The truth is that all human beings are twisted and flawed deep down inside. The human heart is in the grip of a pernicious anti-God allergy, an inner drive toward self-centered self-assertin at all times, a chameleon instinct for practical self-deification that the Bible calls sin and diagnoses as pride."
"Pride, thus understood, is a passion always to be in control so that all our desires get satisfied and in all relationship we dominate. So pride makes impossible a turly respectful attitude to other people, which sees everyone else as mattering more than oneself."
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Philippians 2:3
Pride, Packer continues, "makes impossible a truly reverent attitude to God, which sees his glory as all that matters and ourselves as here to praise and please him in all that we do, starting with our treatment of others."
"All God-centeredness is categorically ruled out by the 'me-ism' of pride. If therefore we practice religion, pride in that religion is at the heart of it, and if we do not practice religion, pride is the seed of our idea that we don not deed God in order to live well."
"Pride within leads us to affirm ourselves, feeling that we are the world's most important people; pride teaches us to justify ourselves, seeing what we have done and are doing now as essentiallly good and decent behavior, whatever those around us may think to the contrary; and pride generates satisfaction with ourselves as we are, with consequent unwillingness to change or be changed. Such is the bad news about the human heart." PRAYER by J.I.Packer and Carolyn Nystrom, page 265
As it happened, Nebuchadnezzar was given a full year by God until He lowered the boom. The king was stripped of everything, until as he says, he "lifted his eyes toward heaven," when his sanity was restored. Praise flowed, as in his newfound humility he acknowledged the Most High God of heaven.
May God in His mercy also grant us the time we need to repent of our pride, till we can begin to see others as better than ourselves. Our culture spoonfeeds our pride, but if we will humble ourselves under God's mighty hand, he will lift us up, like Nebuchadnezzar, when he sees fit. 1 Peter 5:6
Nebuchadnezzar learned this truth the hard way. He had been graciously warned in a dream that his fall was immanent. And when Daniel interpreted the dream for him, he indicated that it wasn't too late, that mercy was being offered. "Renounce your sins by doing what is right," he said to the king, " and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity may continue. Daniel 4:27
In his book on PRAYING, J. I. Packer says:
"The truth is that all human beings are twisted and flawed deep down inside. The human heart is in the grip of a pernicious anti-God allergy, an inner drive toward self-centered self-assertin at all times, a chameleon instinct for practical self-deification that the Bible calls sin and diagnoses as pride."
"Pride, thus understood, is a passion always to be in control so that all our desires get satisfied and in all relationship we dominate. So pride makes impossible a turly respectful attitude to other people, which sees everyone else as mattering more than oneself."
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Philippians 2:3
Pride, Packer continues, "makes impossible a truly reverent attitude to God, which sees his glory as all that matters and ourselves as here to praise and please him in all that we do, starting with our treatment of others."
"All God-centeredness is categorically ruled out by the 'me-ism' of pride. If therefore we practice religion, pride in that religion is at the heart of it, and if we do not practice religion, pride is the seed of our idea that we don not deed God in order to live well."
"Pride within leads us to affirm ourselves, feeling that we are the world's most important people; pride teaches us to justify ourselves, seeing what we have done and are doing now as essentiallly good and decent behavior, whatever those around us may think to the contrary; and pride generates satisfaction with ourselves as we are, with consequent unwillingness to change or be changed. Such is the bad news about the human heart." PRAYER by J.I.Packer and Carolyn Nystrom, page 265
As it happened, Nebuchadnezzar was given a full year by God until He lowered the boom. The king was stripped of everything, until as he says, he "lifted his eyes toward heaven," when his sanity was restored. Praise flowed, as in his newfound humility he acknowledged the Most High God of heaven.
May God in His mercy also grant us the time we need to repent of our pride, till we can begin to see others as better than ourselves. Our culture spoonfeeds our pride, but if we will humble ourselves under God's mighty hand, he will lift us up, like Nebuchadnezzar, when he sees fit. 1 Peter 5:6
