Pride

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18

Pride.  What a battle.  Scripture tells us plainly that a prideful man is setting up for a fall.  A fall because our pride becomes an idol.  Pride does not share a stage.  It will muscle out whatever is around.  Unfortunately, this is God, our family, our friends.  All will fall victim.  So what are we to do?

The verse at the end of this post is from Pual to Timothy cautioning him on choosing people for offices in the church.  He warns that if someone is lifted up with pride he may fall into the hands of the devil.  What if we focus on that?  The fact our pride may cause us to fall into the hands of the enemy who wants to steal, kill and destroy.  Sobering.  More importantly, this verse reminds us that pride is not from God.  Therefore, it is from the enemy.  The logical final step then is to treat it as an unwanted part in our spirit and cast it away in the name of Jesus.

Seeing pride like this may be odd to you.  Think about this, how did Jesus deal with idolatry or the money changers in the temple?  He cast them out!  So, we being the temple of Jesus, let us not tolerate any unclean thing.  In the name of Jesus we cast it out!

Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.  1 Timothy 3:6