FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT – Pride of Life

We start with a definition: When you think too highly of your “self”, your personhood, possession or performance – and therefore think too little of God!

Taking Pride is Not the same as Being Proud:
• Everyone must have a sense of self-respect. We learn to take pride in our appearance in order that we do not dress disheveled or in sensual filthiness.
• We maintain our cars, homes, and lawns in a respectable manner. We can be proud of our Christianity, our faith.

However, when self-respect becomes exaggerated, pride develops into sin. Man begins to think too highly of himself.
“2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,” (Rom. 12:2-4).

Having said that the Pride of Life is sin…
Deut. 8: (18) “And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may [d]establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.”