Human Pride is evil in the sight of God. Without God, we are nothing. He is the one who elevates a person and brings down a person. We would not be able to achieve anything without his grace and favor. He is the giver of wisdom and understanding. He is the giver of strength and health. Without wisdom, understanding, strength, and health, we could achieve nothing.
Be very careful not to take the credit for your own success. Always give glory to God. Remember to always treat others with respect no matter what their status. You never arrive to the point that you are any better than someone else. Whoever wants to be great must be a servant to all. Great people show love, kindness, forgiveness, and esteem others better than themselves. We are all servants of God and each other. Remember that the next time you are tempted to get in your flesh to feel like you are better than someone else. God resists the proud and raises up the humble.
Prayer
Lord, I thank you for your grace and mercy. I ask you to forgive me for being prideful in thinking I’m better than anyone else. I know I am where I am in life only because you ordained it. I realize that earthly riches are fleeting and that I should be focused on my relationship with you and how I treat my fellow man. Please create in me a clear heart and give me a heart of compassion. I repent of my prideful ways and ask you to help me walk humbly in your sight. Teach and mold me into the person you created me to be. In the name of Jesus, I pray this prayer. Amen!
Scripture References
Proverbs 16:18 NIV
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 18:12 NIV
Before a downfall the heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 18:12 AMP
Before disaster the heart of a man is haughty and filled with self-importance, But humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 29:23 NIV
Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.
1 John 2:15-17 NIV
[15] Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. [16] For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. [17] The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
James 4:6 NIV -…“God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”
James 4:10 NIV
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Psalm 75:6-7 NIV
[6] No one from the east or the west or from the desert can exalt themselves. [7] It is God who judges: He brings one down, he exalts another.
Mark 10:42-45 NIV
[42] Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. [43] Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, [44] and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. [45] For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Philippians 2:3-8 NIV
[3] Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, [4] not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. [5] In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: [6] Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; [7] rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. [8] And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!
Psalm 51:10 NKJV
Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Deborah K. Givens, Admin.
