Arrogance

Proverbs 8: 13 says:

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverse mouth I hate.

One definition of arrogant is, ‘exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one’s own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner’.

In Job 37: 19-20, Elihu says to Job:

Teach us what we should say to Him (God), for we can prepare nothing because of the darkness. Should He be told that I wish to speak? If a man were to speak, surely he would be swallowed up. 

‘Should He be told that I wish to speak’… sounds kind of like, “Hold on a minute, I want to say something.” Scary, yet it happens countless times every moment – a person promoting himself and his opinion above what God said.

Lord, help me walk in humility, in your fear.

… let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.

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