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NASB | Daniel 4:37 "Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and He is able to humble those who walk in pride." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Daniel 4:37 "Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and faithful and His ways are just, and He is able to humiliate and humble those who walk in [self-centered, self-righteous] pride." |
Subject: so what's the big deal about pride? |
Bible Note: Amen, Brother John. Thank you for sharing. Reading your note triggers my memory to the book "The Experience That Counts" by Jonanthan Edwards that makes me mindful of Satan's trick (2 Cor 11:14)... "Spiritual humiliation is the essence of Christian self-denial...he must deny his natural self-righteousness and self-centredness...is the hardest to do... "...the proud man tends to think very highly of his humility, whereas the truly humble man thinks of himself as very proud! This is because the proud man and the humble man have different views of themselves. We measure a man's humiliation by our view of his proper dignity and greatness. If a king knelt down to remove the shoe of another king, we would consider this an act of self-abasement, and so would the king who did it. By contrast, if a slave knelt down to remove the shoe of his king, nobody would think that a great act of self-abasement, or a sign of great humility. The slave himself would not think so, unless he were ridiculously conceited... "The proud man is like the conceited slave. He thinks it a great sign of humility to confess his unworthiness before God...If he had a proper view of himself, he would rather feel astonished and ashamed that he was not more humbled before God. "The truly humble man never feels that he has sufficiently asbased himself before God. He feels that however low he bends, he could bend lower. He always feels that he is above his proper position before God. He looks at his position, and looks at where he should be, and he appears at a great distance from it. He calls the distance 'pride'. It is his pride that appears to him to be great, not his humility. It does not seem to him to be a great sign of his humility that he should lie in the dust at the feet of God. He thinks that is exactly where he belongs." - Jonathan Edwards Always love sharing with you. Shalom Azure |