Self-Pride

[464 words] How easy it is for us to become puffed up and prideful. We all have talents and areas in our lives where we excel. We receive complements, awards, promotions at work, and other recognition for the good job that we may have done. Each of us at one time or another have probably gotten caught up in the kind of thinking that can lead us down a dangerous path. We let pride get to us and we believe that we have somehow accomplished something real and important on our own and through our own abilities. The prophet Isaiah spoke of God’s judgement against the king of Assyria. God condemns “the king of Assyria for his willful pride in his heart and the haughty look in his eyes” (Isaiah 10:12). Listen to the words with which the king had deceived himself: “For he says: ‘By the strength of my…