The Seven Deadly Sins - Pride
"Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble."
Pride can be interpreted as arrogance, vanity, or self-glorifying opinions. Unnecessary confidence and constant acknowledgement of superior status will inevitably result in the aforementioned sin. For those individuals desiring unparallel beauty, possessions, or stature, associated actions will result in committed sin. The reason such actions are intertwined with sin is because the respective glory and excellence should be attributed to God alone. Unfortunately, many individuals remain unaware of such gratification. I, too, often notice my reflection content and eager to self indulge. This, however, can exceed the limits and eventually result in an excess amount of self glorification. The excess will also promote gluttony, and possibly lust. It is easy to compare the relative sins and understand them, but enacting such remedies totally contrasts.
Various other forms of pride also exist. An abundance of pride in race, heritage, tradition, spirituality, and riches also declares sinful. The concept of pride not only advises believers to spare glory and excellence for God, but to also be considerate of fellow mortals. An example of such is repeatedly noticed via competition. To rejoice and claim superiority over another athlete is to criticize and demean another individual of similar chemistry and creation, but fails to equate in skill. The prideful will also refuse to acknowledge God in tedious and difficult situations, but instead rely on their own self evolved solutions. I currently recollect memories involving the WWJD bracelets that swept the market roughly a decade ago. As I previously suggested, specific, prideful individuals will not question the incomprehensive. With the What Would Jesus Do bracelets, constant remembrance provides for fewer, hypocritical answers to an otherwise moral action.
Isaiah 25: 11 (King James Version)
"And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands."
All Experts (2009). Christianity - church history. Retrieved Jan 04, 2010 from http://en.allexperts.com/q/Christianity-Church-History-2348/History-seven-deadly-sins.htm
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4 Comments
Post a Commentvery well written, we can plenty of evidence of these sins and the havoc they can create. Thanks for sharing :)
What a great series! An address by Ezra Taft Benson entitled "Beware of Pride" is one of those talks that has stuck with me through the years. It's so easy to get wrapped up in the cares of the world, yet it's so important to reevaluate and see what needs to be improved in my own life. Here's the link if you're interested. http://tinyurl.com/PrideTalk Take care!
I should rephrase this to read that "...all of these Seven Deadly Sins were covered in a [most] excellent way". Of course they are not excellent on their own, but the way you summarized them IS. My apologies. Thanks.
Greg, all of these Seven Deadly Sins are excellent. In my opinion, I believe that Pride is at the center of all of these. I can see how pride is present in each of these deadly sins and it was pride that lifted up Lucifer to want to overtake the very throne and authoriity of God. You've done an outstanding job in all of these that I read but commented only on the Pride one since I think it is systemic in all the others. Nice write indeed. Thank you. : - )