God hates pride. Pride in the heart of any person insists, however subtly, that God should scoot over so we can take a seat as king. Whether by ignoring him or outright rejecting his rule, we are all born our own bosses.<\/p>\n
In Isaiah 13:11, God writes this about Babylon: “I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.” In last Sunday’s sermon, “The God of the World and History<\/a>,” we pondered the danger of pride together. Babylon, in Scripture, is\u00c2\u00a0famous for her pride and symbolic of the pride at the heart of every human.<\/p>\n To help you examine your own life for pride, Desiring God recently published a helpful piece, “Seven Subtle Symptoms of Pride<\/a>.” Here’s how it starts:<\/p>\n Pride will kill you. Forever. Pride is the sin most likely to keep you from crying out for a Savior. Those who think they are well will not look for a doctor.<\/p>\n As seriously dangerous as pride is, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s equally hard to spot. When it comes to diagnosing our hearts, those of us who have the disease of pride have a challenging time identifying our sickness. Pride infects our eyesight, causing us to view ourselves through a lens that colors and distorts reality. Pride will paint even our ugliness in sin as beautiful and commendable.<\/p>\n We can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t conclude that we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t struggle with pride because we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see pride in our hearts. The comfortable moments when I pat myself on the back for how well I am doing are the moments that should alarm me the most. I need to reach for the glasses of Christ-like humility, remembering that nothing good dwells in my flesh, and search my heart for secret pride and its symptoms.<\/p>\n In his essay on undetected pride, Jonathan Edwards points out seven sneaky symptoms of the infection of pride.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Then, with Jonathan Edwards as a guide, the piece unpacks seven symptoms: fault-finding, a harsh spirit, superficiality, defensiveness, presumption before God, desperation for attention, and neglecting others.<\/p>\n We all need to hear this.\u00c2\u00a0Click here<\/a> for the full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"