Pride Causes Us to Be Contentious

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Pride

A person may be rich and have all kinds of material things but have nothing spiritually. Another person may be poor materially speaking but rich spiritually (v. 7). It is sad to see but those who posses riches often put their trust in their possessions. The rich man may need to use his money to buy himself out of trouble but the poor man is not threatened with someone taking his things (v. 8).

A MAN IS RICH ACCORDING TO WHAT HE IS AND NOT BY WHAT HE HAS.

It is an old saying that “it takes two to make a quarrel.” Just mark it down .. whenever you are at odds with someone else . . . pride is heavily involved. Pride causes us to be contentious with those who contradict us in opinion or personal desire (v. 10). It is easy to develop over the years an over-evaluation of our abilities and even grace. Pride loves to be paraded and will go to great ends to get the applause of men. When contention enters, what used to be a beautiful friendship is now a fallout. An example of this is the strife that came between the herdsmen of Abraham and Lot. We need to learn the lesson of how Abraham dealt with this problem of offering first choice to the man who really had no title whatsoever to the land which God had given to Abraham.

Application

It is sad to see how pride causes contention in families and churches. You need to humbly ask God to reveal the hidden serpent of pride in each member of your family and ask Him to protect you from outbursts of temper, unloving judgments, impatience and a stubborn self-will. Memorize together (Rom. 12:18) and apply it today!!

Proverbs 13:6-13 (English Standard Version)


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