Pride and Humility
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Proverbs 16:18 — "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Pride is the sinful elevation of self that seeks autonomy from God, confidence in self rather than dependence on God, and glory for self rather than glory for God.
"Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite." (Numbers 12:1)
Verse 2 reveals the deeper problem:
“Has the Lord spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” Numbers 12:2
Taking offense easily is one of the biggest indicators of pride you will see.
Humility is the posture of the heart that recognizes God's greatness, submits to His authority, and depends completely upon Him.
The Hebrew word anavah is what we translate as
"humility," but the literal definition of anavah is to occupy your God-given space in the world-to not overestimate yourself or your abilities, but to not underestimate them either.
Humility is not primarily thinking less of yourself—it's thinking rightly about yourself in light of God
Andrew Murray- “Humility is the place of entire dependence on God.”
Micah 6:8 -He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly[a] with your God.
Author John Bevere says it this way "A truly humble man fears God, and a man who fears God is truly humble."
Proverbs 22:4- Humility is the fear of the Lord; its wages are riches and honor and life.
The fear of the Lord is a heart posture of reverence, awe, and surrender that flows from rightly seeing who God is and recognizing our complete dependence upon Him.”
Humility says, "I need God.” — The fear of the Lord says, "I obey God.”
Isaiah 6:5 - “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”
Humility is the natural response of a person who truly fears God.
Number 12: 4-13—- (Sorry it’s so long Jonah)
4 At once the Lord said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, “Come out to the tent of meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them went out.
5 Then the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them stepped forward, 6 he said, “Listen to my words:
“When there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams.
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But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house.
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With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord.Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
9 The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he left them.
10 When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam’s skin was leprous[a]—it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease, 11 and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. 12 Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”
13 So Moses cried out to the Lord, “Please, God, heal her!”
“God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” James 4:6
The fear of the Lord is seeing God so rightly that we stop trusting in ourselves, stop exalting ourselves, and willingly surrender every part of our lives to God.
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