The fruit of pride is heavy and abundant and bitter.
And pride itself is sneaky and deceptive and often well camouflaged.
I know.
Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. —1 Peter 5:6.
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see we beseech thee, we are all thy people. —Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. —It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Prov. 16:5. Isa. 64:8,9. -Jer. 31:18,19. -Lam. 3:27. Job 5:6,7.
Egotism, self-promotion, pride — repent of it lest it consume you and your potential and your dreams!