PRIDE

Pride And Its Family Members

Pride is an unruly way of praising yourself. 

Pride as explained by my online English Dictionary, it is "an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others."

    Pride is a thing of the heart, it deals with your motifs, you can ordinarily be speaking good of yourself, but innerly, you are doing it to let them know you are better off. It is a habit that delight in pressing others down while you are praising yourself. 

    Pride is a habit, a very quiet and good habit that can easily destroy man. Good in the sense that, it makes you see the good sides of yourself, on the other hand, it is quiet in the sense that, you won't know that, as you focus on your own good sides alone you are blind to your bads and goods of others around you. In short, pride is the father of selfishness.

    If you find any of the following Family Members of Pride in your life, you are simply proud, they include;

1. Self-glorification: it is always a good thing to take pleasure in oneself. But the bad side of it is doing it purposely to bring others down. For instance, painting your goods to reveal the bads of another. A man bought a vehicle for his friend, so that he can use the car as commercial vehicle to source income for his family. Here is the friend broadcasting what he did for his friend to his family, "I bought a car for my friend today, he has suffered a lot from poverty, I just bought it to save him and his family from hunger." That kind of report is simply explaining what he did, but in an unruly way, to paint the suffering of his friend. There is nothing bad in talking about your good deeds, but not to give Glory to yourself.

2. Self-sufficient in knowledge: A proud man is Mr/Mrs "Know it All".  Before a proud man, there is no how much or many things you can know, he will mouth melt it down. He knows more than everyone. He will always want to proof the fact that he knows more than all. Behold, anyman who always wants to proof how much he knows actually knows nothing. A proud man can not learn from anyone, so he can't know, he is void of knowledge. The most empty men on earth are the prouders.

3. Arrogance: One fact about arrogance is that, you don't have to be lousy, you can actually be cool and be proud and arrogant. Being arrogant is being disrespectful to every one. Some people are so arrogant that they can tongue lash anyone, young and old. An arrogant man will never accept corrections. 

  One dangerous thing about pride is, it will never let you see yourself doing anything wrong even when you are very wrong. To be free and totally free from this habit that destroys men one needs a divine encounter from God.