Obadiah 3-4<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The pride\u00a0of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, \u2018Who can bring me down to the ground?\u2019\u00a0 4\u00a0Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest\u00a0among the stars, from there I will bring you down,\u201d declares the\u00a0Lord.<\/i><\/p>\n
Pride is our enemy.\u00a0\u00a0It steals the ability to love as God loves.\u00a0\u00a0In the measure that pride is in us we are selfish.\u00a0\u00a0Selfishness is the lack of ability to love others more than, or even equal to, how much one loves self.\u00a0\u00a0Pride nibbles and bites away at empathy and compassion, it has little use for them, unless to be used to prosper self.\u00a0\u00a0Pride considers empathy and compassion competing characteristics for what is best for self.<\/p>\n
Mixed into the composition of pride is theft and lust.\u00a0\u00a0The proud think themselves entitled.\u00a0\u00a0What others have, if desired, the proud deem that they should have and more of it.\u00a0\u00a0Or at least should control it.\u00a0\u00a0Those filled with pride think that they should not be denied anything valuable, desirable and beautiful.\u00a0\u00a0If one has a beautiful partner, than the proud have a right to steal.\u00a0\u00a0The prideful steal beauty and innocence and it does not matter that beauty is hurt, they want and so think they should have.\u00a0\u00a0Pride convinces that what one wants one should have and it cares not for who is hurt in the fulfilling of the drive to obtain.<\/p>\n
Pride is the soil of hate.\u00a0\u00a0Pride brings unhealthy competition and desires to rule and to raise oneself above others.\u00a0\u00a0Pride pushes out love.\u00a0\u00a0Pride demands for self the possession of what is conceived as the best, the highest, the most valuable, and the loveliest.\u00a0\u00a0Pride also demands that those close to itself also have the same, only in lesser measure.\u00a0\u00a0And not for the sake of loving another, but because it is part of being surrounded by the best.\u00a0\u00a0Ultimately pride consumes the best and cares not for the benefit of others, its chief concern is for itself.<\/p>\n
Pride brings delusion.\u00a0\u00a0Pride brings a wrong perception of one\u2019s abilities.\u00a0\u00a0Instead of being thankful for how God has gifted the prideful consider that they are great because they are great and not because they were given all that is a gifting.\u00a0\u00a0The prideful think they cannot fall, until they do. (Proverbs 16:18<\/b>) The prideful think themselves superior to others.\u00a0\u00a0They think themselves of highest value and believing that justifies the hoarding of blessings meant to be distributed for another, or all.<\/p>\n
Pride imposes on others in order to gratify oneself.\u00a0\u00a0Pride cannot fully love anyone.<\/p>\n
Vulnerability is upon all who are prideful.\u00a0\u00a0They think that no-one could harm them because they are superior.\u00a0\u00a0The proud, in their pride are all infected with the thought they have no weaknesses.\u00a0\u00a0Since pride blinds the proud to truth, they cannot honestly self-assess.\u00a0\u00a0A man who will not ready for the battle because he thinks himself superior is ready to be overrun.\u00a0\u00a0A prideful man cannot conceive that even a fool, in his foolishness, can conceive of a way that the prideful man could not.\u00a0\u00a0Pride deceives and makes one vulnerable.<\/p>\n
Pride refuses good counsel.\u00a0\u00a0It thinks that one is independent.\u00a0\u00a0The proud fall hard. (Ezekiel 33:28<\/b>)<\/p>\n
The proud look down from their throne and think their kingdom impregnable. Falling from a high place can be deadly, and so can a fall from a small height. (Proverbs 16:5<\/b>)<\/p>\n
Pride steals gratitude to God from the heart.\u00a0\u00a0Pride believes that one has because one has blessed oneself.\u00a0\u00a0Pride need not be thankful to God because the proud share glory with no-one.\u00a0\u00a0The proud one is not grateful because that person believes it deserves.<\/p>\n
Pride thoroughly corrupts.\u00a0\u00a0It is a rust that eats away the strongest steel and causes the foundation to fail so that the building falls to waste and rubble.\u00a0\u00a0Pride eats away and destroys all that it supports.<\/p>\n
Pride is the absence of humility.\u00a0\u00a0No man is proud who dwells in the shadow of the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0He who dwells with the Lord is thankful and humble.\u00a0\u00a0Job 42:5<\/b>–6<\/b>\u00a0\u201cMy ears had heard of you but my now my eyes have seen you.\u00a0\u00a0Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Comparing oneself to other people gives rise to pride.\u00a0\u00a0Comparing oneself to God is humbling.\u00a0\u00a0And being humble is pleasing with the Lord and those who please the Lord He will bless (James 4:6<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dwell with God, compare oneself only with God and pride will not be a problem and blessings from God will flow.<\/p>\n
Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n
Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will Hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n
Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has\u00a0shown you, Oh man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; and what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of you, but\u00a0to do justly, to love\u00a0mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.<\/p>\n
Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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