GET.OVER.YOURSELF
BREAD
7 For
who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not
receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
1 Corinthians 4:7 (NIV)
1 The
word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, how is the wood
of a vine better than that of a branch on any of the trees in the forest?”
Ezekiel 15:1-2 (NIV)
12 Before
his downfall a man's heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 18:12 (NIV)
11 These
things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us,
on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. 12 So, if you think you are
standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! 13 No temptation has seized you
except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be
tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also
provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.
1 Corinthians 10:11-13 (NIV)
13 To
fear the Lord is to hate evil; I
hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.
Proverbs 8:13 (NIV)
36 At the
same time that my sanity was restored, my honor and splendor were returned to
me for the glory of my kingdom. My advisers and nobles sought me out, and I was
restored to my throne and became even greater than before. 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise
and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right
and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
Daniel 4:36-37 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Don’t slack off
seeking, striving, and praying for the very same things that we exhort
unconverted people to strive for, and a degree of which you have had in
conversion. Thus pray that your eyes may be opened, that you may receive sight,
that you may know your self and be brought to God’s feet, and that you may see
the glory of God and Christ, may be raised from the dead, and have the love of
Christ shed abroad in your heart. Those that have most of these things still
need to pray for them; for there so much blindness and hardness and pride and
death remaining that they still need to have that work of God upon them,
further to enlighten and enliven them. This will be a further bringing out of
darkness into God’s marvelous light, and a kind of new conversion…” Jonathan
Edwards, Advice to Young Converts.
“Here is the
divine antidote against the pride and restless ambition of the men of this
world. Nothing is more sad than to
witness a pushing, bustling, forward, self-confident spirit and style in those
who profess to be followers of Him who was meek and lowly in heart. It is such a flagrant contradiction of the
spirit and precepts of Christianity, and is a sure accompaniment of an unbroken
condition of the soul. It is utterly impossible
for any one to indulge in a boastful, pretentious, self-confident spirit, if
ever he has really measured himself in the presence of God. To be much alone with God is the sovereign
remedy for pride and self-complacency.
May we know the reality of this in the secret of our own souls. May the good Lord keep us truly humble, in
all our ways, simply leaning on Himself and his grace…” C H
Macintosh
“O believer, learn
to reject pride, seeing that you have no ground for it. Whatever you are, you have nothing to make you
proud. The more you have, the more you
are in debt to God; and you should not be proud of that which renders you a
debtor. Consider your origin; look back
to what you were. Consider what you
would have been but for divine grace.
Look upon yourself as you are now.
Does not your conscience reproach you?
Do not your thousand wanderings stand before you, and tell you that you
are unworthy to be called His son or daughter?
And if He has made you anything, aren’t you taught thereby that it is
grace which has made you to differ? Great
believer, you would have been a great sinner if God had not made you to differ.
O you who are valiant for truth, you would
have been as valiant for error if grace had not laid hold upon you. Therefore do not be proud, though you have a
large estate – a wide domain of grace, once you did not have a single things to
call your own except your sin and misery.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
HEART SAVOR
·
Everything I have
has been given to me. That leaves no
room for pride in my life.
·
God detests pride.
·
God is fully able
to humble the arrogant of heart and mouth.
