It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. -Augustine of Hippo
This week at Restoration we were challenged to slay the “pink elephant” of pride. An inward sin of selfishness, pride hides and lurks in our lives and rears its ugly head too often to our detriment. In its wake it leaves only misery, pain, and brokenness. While we all may struggle with pride to varying degrees, we don’t have to stay there. The cure for pride is humility, cultivating the attitude and actions of the Master servant, Jesus.
“5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Php 2:5–8.