Asking God to deal with your pride is a huge step! Pride and arrogance dress
themselves up in many different clothes. It is possible to wear sackcloth, and
yet be proud of appearing humble. Standing up for our rights can be a covering
for pride; yet to be seen doing the humble thing in a situation can also be
masked pride! thinking we are not proud can be camourflaged pride.
The only one who can expose our pride is the Holy Spirit, and He is
the one who must reveal and deal with it.
We can be sure that
God hates pride. It caused the fall of Satan. It can cause us to fall. There is
a proverb that says 'pride comes before a fall'. And the Bible teaches that God
resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. So some of the difficulties we
find ourselves in are allowed by God to deliver us of our pride. When people
don't think well of us; or we are not given the honour we think we deserve,
others overlook us or speak about us behind our back, wanting to be right all
the time, all these things touch our pride. Being pushed into taking the lowest
place, rather than choosing the lowest place can hit our pride.
If we are in
need of grace, want to come close to God, then in humility we must ask Him to
cleanse us and then draw near to us again. He will do it if we are honest and
sincere about our self. Don't shrink, let all be exposed before Him. We are to
humble ourselves in the sight of the Lord, not necessarily man, and He will lift
us up Jas 4:10
'God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Submit
yourselves, therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw
near to God and he will draw near to you.' James 4: 6-8
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