The Sins of Proud People
We all need to be on guard against having pride rise up in our hearts and minds. If we allow ourselves to become proud of ourselves or our achievements, it will cause us to think the wrong way and to say the wrong things. All that pride does is lead us to sin. As the Bible says, "Prides goes before a fall." Once pride comes into our life, we are destined to fall into sins and the consequences of our sins. That is what happened to the people who were left in the land after Gedaliah, the governor appointed by the Babylonians, was killed by Ishmael. They asked Jeremiah to pray to the Lord to show them what to do, but they did not like what the Lord told Jeremiah to tell them. (Jeremiah 43:2) Azariah, Johanan, and all the proud men said that Jeremiah was lying and that God had not forbidden them to go to Egypt. That led them to make the fatal mistake of going to Egypt where they were killed or died from disease. We can learn a great lesson here. Pride makes us think that we can ...