The Death of Pride

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

I'm finally posting again and reading a new book, Holiness by Grace authored by Bryan Chapell. Some of us continually fall into the appeasement of God trap and its root is pride. Bryan comments:

Spiritual pride dies when we realize that all of our comparisons with others based on relative levels of apparent goodness count for nothing in terms of gaining us standing with God. What we may want God to account to our credit has no currency with him, because the economy of good works is dead. Being better than the next guy, being a more astute observer of his sin, or being more insightful about scriptural truth does nothing to earn me status with God. [p43]

Although this makes perfect sense it so easily entangles our lives.