Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. Proverbs 16:5
There is nothing into which the heart of man so easily falls as pride. And yet there is no vice that is more frequently, more emphatically, and more eloquently condemned in Scripture. –Spurgeon
I once went up to a dead possum that was hit by a car. It had been there on the side of the road for a few days. He was swollen up looking like a yeast roll fresh out of the oven. What a mistake that was! I rolled him over and the gases that had built up inside of his rotting corps came out like a bottle rocket on July the Fourth! It was one of the grosses smells ever to enter my nostrils!
I imagine a prideful person’s life smells even worse than that to the Lord. He speaks a lot of pride and how it impacts our lives in a huge negative way. It would do each of us good to follow the Word of God where He says, “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:” 1 Peter 5:6
