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HELEN SANDERS
7-21-2022
PRIDE COMES BEFORE A FALL
He was the praise leader. He was created in perfect beauty. He led the choir of heaven into praise. He covered the throne of God as a Cherubim. Every beautiful stone was his covering. He walked in the garden of Eden, and he walked in the holy mountain of God.
He became corrupted by the pride of his beauty and wanted to be like the Most High God. He wanted to sit upon a throne above God and cause the people of the earth to tremble. He wanted to be in control and not submit to God.
He was brought low because of his pride. He caused a third of the angels to follow him because of his deception and pride. He brings deception by offering all the precious things of the world if you serve him, but this path will only bring you down with him.
In Proverbs 16:18 it says, “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
Pride means to be arrogant, pompous, to see oneself as majestic. Haughty means arrogance, loftiness, prideful.
When you see yourself as being better than God himself you can expect a fall to come. Nations have fallen because of their pride, thinking they could outsmart God. It did not work for them, and it will not work for us.
Psalms 34:18 says, “The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.” Contrite means to be crushed. When we see ourselves being crushed, we know that God is bringing anything that stands between us and him to the surface so it can be dealt with. He loves us enough to allow this to happen to keep us from becoming prideful.
God never wanted Lucifer (Satan) to fall. He gave him every opportunity to be what he was created for. He was created to be the praise leader. He was created to cover the throne of God with his wings. But his beauty, his arrogance, and his pride brought him to destruction. He was cast down from his “lofty” position because of his pride and will be cast into the lake of fire before eternity is over. His pride cost him everything.
We should never be prideful about anything we accomplish, or the call that we have. We should always remember it is God that elevates and God that brings down. Everything we have is a result of what God has done for us. Our lives are totally empty without the master’s hand upon it. Oh, that we would see that without him we are nothing but a piece of unmolded clay. But clay submitted and molded by God’s hands brings a beautiful piece of art that can worship the creator. There is no room for pride in a child of God.
Do not let pride control your lives. Be a yielded piece of clay that will do the master’s bidding without question and without delay.
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