[Manna - September 29]
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord. Proverbs 16:5
ONE of the severe ordeals of the New Creature is
the conquering of the love of the spirit of worldliness
under the leadership of pride.
Worldly pride challenges
faith in God and obedience to Him, and only
those who are of good courage and full of confidence
in the Lord can overcome this giant.
It is necessary,
too, that the victory should be made complete—that
pride should be thoroughly humiliated, killed, so that
it can never rise up again to destroy us.
It is an individual
battle, and the only proper armament against
this giant is a stone from the brook, the message of
the Lord, showing us what is pleasing and acceptable
in His sight, and assuring us that he that humbleth
himself shall be exalted and he that exalteth himself
shall be abased.
As the poet has expressed it:—
"Where boasting ends, true dignity begins." Z.'03-329 R3231:1