I
could deny being prideful because most of the time my insecurity prevents my
pride from taking over. There, of course, is good pride and bad pride. For the
purposes of our Lent season that, yes I know is over, we will look at the bad
kind- cocky, arrogant pride. It goes hand in hand with entitlement. And we know
what the Bible says about it- the part in Proverbs about it coming before
destruction. That’s a strong word. Pride will destroy you? That beautifully
controversial Message version says it like this, “First pride, then the crash - the bigger the ego, the
harder the fall.” But humility is wisdom. And humility is putting others first.
The great C. S. Lewis says it best in this well-known quote, ““True humility is not thinking less
of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
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