Pride

Pride TOPIC TAG (871) Biblical Usage: highminded, pride of life, puffed up. Dictionary Definitions:1. a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc. 2. the state or feeling of being proud. 3. a becoming or dignified sense of what is due to oneself or one's position or character; self-respect; self-esteem. 4. pleasure or satisfaction taken in something done by or belonging to oneself or believed to reflect credit upon oneself: civic pride.

Devotional: The First Sin That Necessitated Our Need For Redemption

Submitted by Randy on Tue, 2013-02-05 02:05

Genesis 3:6, “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.”

Lucifer Fell From Grace Because He Intended to Become a Rival of God

Isaiah 14:14 Lucifer who was once an angel who decided one day that he wanted to be just like God. He felt that he was perfect and did not need God. His stated intentions to be just God was a sin, a mark of imperfection. His sin was that he was rebelling against God by imagining that he could be like God.

Lucifer Fell From Grace Because He Exalted Himself Above God

Isaiah 14:13. Lucifer fell from grace because sin was found in him (see Ezekiel 28:15). His sin was pride where he exalted himself above God. He rebelled against God where he felt he did not need God. He felt that he had both the will and the power to do anything and be anything that he desired. He no longer needed God in his life.

Devotional: Trust God, Not Things

Submitted by Randy on Wed, 2012-11-28 00:58

Psalm 49:6, "They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches."

Devotional: A Fool's Downfall is Their Pride

Submitted by Randy on Thu, 2012-10-11 00:35

Proverbs 14:3, “In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.”

God says that you are a fool when you are full of pride. You are basically deceiving yourself thinking that you are above God.

Fool, Your Mouth Shall Be Your Downfall

Devotional: Tower of Babel - Built by a Free People Who Were Without God

Submitted by Randy on Sat, 2011-08-27 12:59

Genesis 11:4, “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

TOWER OF BABEL - BUILT BY A FREE PEOPLE WHO WERE WITHOUT GOD

Devotional: Love and Selfishness Do Not Co-Exist

Submitted by Randy on Sun, 2011-06-26 12:31

1 Corinthians 13:4, "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,"

LOVE AND SELFISHNESS DO NOT CO-EXIST

Business Principle for Letting God Be Your Guide: Trust God Over Uncertain Profits

1st Timothy 6:17. Another business principle, especially for successful business persons, is to trust God over uncertain profits. 1st Timothy 6:17 tells us, “Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;”. Success in business can quickly go to one’s head.

A Fool: His Conceit Convinces Himself That He is Wise

Proverbs 26:12. Vanity and conceit make people think that they are wise, but the reality is that their conceit has made them a fool. When we are full of conceit and pride, we think we are wiser than other people and God. We are basically a know-it-all. As the definition of conceit says, we have an “unduly high opinion of ourselves”.

Lazy People Think That They Have All the Answers

Proverbs 26:16. Lazy people do not seek God for direction in their lives, nor do they seek advice from others. Lazy people think that they have all the answers. Proverbs 26:16 says, "The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render reason".