Picture with me the throne room of God as described in the book of Revelation by the Apostle John. Around the throne are four living creatures. "Day and night they never stop saying, 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come" (Rev. 4:8).
Pride! God has declared Himself to be a jealous God who will not tolerate our worship of any other gods. Yet prideful man continues to arrogantly exalt himself rebelliously taking credit for what God has done. Pride has been defined as "the sin of an uplifted heart against God and man."
In the first part of our study on pride, we concentrated on its ugliness and God's attitude toward it. In this next section, we will look at humility, the opposite of pride. First, let's see what God's attitude is toward the humble.
There are great rewards in following God's commands, but most of His promises are conditional. Before we can receive the great rewards offered, we must first obey the conditions. No more is this more apparent than in this scripture from Matthew.
Do you sometimes feel that living the Christian life is too hard? That Satan and the forces of evil have the upper hand? That as much as you try, you aren't growing in the Lord and becoming more like Him? If this sounds like you, there's good news. God didn't command us to live a righteous life, then just leave us to figure out how to do it on our own. Scripture provides us with the answers to all the issues of life. Let's begin with a scripture in Second Peter.