Daily Word - False Pride

ISAIAH 14:11-15 KJV

We've all heard these sayings, "Take pride in your work ... Be proud of
yourself and who you are" ... but sinful pride is a slippery slope that
leads down to the pit of hell.  The very epitome of sinful pride is who
Satan is ... the most exalted of all the angels ... yet that essence of
sinful pride emboldened him to reject his Creator and to rebel in his
own "false pride" and arrogance.

Our "true pride" ... is to only be in Christ.  We are saved by grace ... 
all that we've been given is nothing we deserve ... but yet have been
provided everything by the mercy and loving kindness of our heavenly
Father ... through Christ His beloved Son.


2 Corinthians 10:17

But he that glories, let him glory in the Lord.


Isaiah 14:11-15

Your pomp is brought down to the grave ... How are you fallen from
heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!  How are you cut down to the
ground ... For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I
will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also on the
mount of the congregation ... I will ascend above the heights of the
clouds; I will be like the most High.   Yet you shall be brought down to
hell, to the sides of the pit.

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