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As a Christian, I must recognize that the Biblical problem with the month of June in America is PRIDE
(Please read further before commenting… noticing what I’m not saying… in fact if you are waiting for me to say “it” this is the closest I’m coming to that in this post)
Paul makes clear in Galatians 6:3-4, pride is the root of all comparison.
Save Paul, nobody has articulated this better than C.S. Lewis who said in Mere Christianity: “We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others. If everyone else became equally rich, or clever, or good-looking there would be nothing to be proud about.
It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.”
For those of us that claim to follow Christ… Pride. Should. Not. Be. Part. Of. Our. Life.
1 John 2:16 (KJV) — “…the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”
This verse hits it in the head for the month of June… if we are to join in, let us leave pride aside.
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Additional Verses
Proverbs 16:18 (KJV) —“Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
Proverbs 8:13 (KJV) — “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.”
Proverbs 11:2 (KJV) — “When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.”
James 4:6 / 1 Peter 5:5 (KJV) — “God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace unto the humble.”
Proverbs 29:23 (KJV) — “A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.”
Psalm 10:4 (KJV) — “The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God.”