The pride that God loathes is not a healthy self-respect or a legitimate sense of personal dignity. It is the haughty, undue self-esteem out of all proportion to our actual worth. It is the repugnant egotism that is repulsive to both man and God. It is that revolting conceit which swaggers before men and struts in the presence of the Almighty. And God detests it.
Pride may take various forms. Spiritual pride trusts in one’s own virtue rather than in the grace of God. Intellectual pride gives its possessor self-confidence rather than God-confidence. Pride in material things enthrones self and displaces God; secondary things are exalted to the place of first importance. Social pride manifests itself in arrogance and status. All forms of pride emanate from the haughty human heart, and pride is the sin that God detests most.
What can you do about it? Confess your pride. Humble yourself in the sight of God. Look then at Christ, who “humbled himself and became obedient to death–even death on a cross!” (Philippians 2:8).
Proverbs 16:5 – The Lord detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.
Michael & Alison Smitherman
The Singing NetSurfers
I will sing to my Lord as long as I live, I will sing
praise to my God while I have my being.
Sin springs from the false sense of separation; separation from God and from others. The particular sin of pride takes this false sense of separation to its worst manifestation. In pride, we not only falsely separate ourselves from God and others, but we perceive ourselves as superior to God or others. It is the gateway sin to all other sins. It is the original sin that caused us to be cast out of Eden.
However, the gate to Eden was reopened by Christ’s sacrifice and we can live in the garden again. To live there, we must overcome our pride and turn our lives and our priorities over to God. We must see through the false illusion of our sense of separateness, and accept that we are God’s children, indivisible and eternally connected.
Then we can live in harmony with true reality as one of God’s children, no better or worse than any other. Then we can see the true picture of our selves in our world. Then the garden appears and we can claim all the hope, joy, love and peace that God put in this garden for our best good.
Coming together right now,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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