Friday, May 16, 2014

PRIDE

   Pride is the devil in disguise.
   Pride lives on the corner, in the house across the street.
   Pride is here, pride is there, pride is everywhere.
   Pride hath no rules, knoweth no boundaries.
   Pride builds up, and pride destroys.
   Pride seeks to be seen, and not to see.
   Pride desires to be served, worshiped, and adored.
   Pride enjoys the face in the mirror, and its favorite pose is for the camera.
   Pride knows everything known, and for things not known, pride knows that, too.
   Pride is never wrong because pride is always right.
   Pride is seduction, and pride will steal.
   Pride is a serpent:  silent, sneaky, sly,
   Pride is a lion, roaring to have its own way.
   Pride is the prince of thieves, abiding in darkness.
   Pride is deception, appearing as an angel of light.
   Pride can be seen, and pride can be heard.
   Everywhere you want to be, pride is there.
   Pride never leaves, nor takes a vacation.
   Pride is against God, against Christ, and against the Bible.
   There is a man whose eyes are only for himself.  He spends his time alone, working on his personal projects, his personal achievements, the works of his own hands.  He has no interest in others for his only interest in life is unto himself.  The people who know him do not know him because he has no desire to be known.  Even his family does not know him for, again, he has no desire to be known.  What does he think about?  No one knows.  How does he feel about the things that matter to others?  No one knows.  He never applauds the success of others for this would rob himself of his own self-glory.  He is consumed by his own self-inflicted self-pity, for he bathes himself in negative attention.  For in the presence of others, he is a stranger, and others are strangers to him because there is nothing he desires to know about others.  That man is a lonely man, a miserable man, for rarely does he smile, and he never laughs.  His face is a reflection of darkness, the absence of light.  Therefore he has no love for others because he has never experienced the love of God.
   Pride is a cancer, eating people to death from the inside.
   As it is written, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.  (James 4: 6)
   For this purpose the Son of God was manifesteth, that he might destroy the works of the devil.  (1 John 3: 8)
  
  

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