“The arrogant cannot stand in Your presence…Everyone proud and arrogant in heart is disgusting, hateful, and exceedingly offensive to the Lord; be assured [I pledge it] they will not go unpunished” (PS 5:5; PV 16:5, AMP)

Pride means to think too much of yourself, of your looks, gifs, achievements or possessions. Pride is the root of all other sins. God calls pride SIN! We should not call it by any other names. Pride is not a weakness, a family trait, a style, a fashion or a way of life. PRIDE IS SIN! Do you want to know what sin is? Sin, pride, it is what killed Jesus on the Cross!

God hates all sin, but in particular, He hates pride. We usually say that God hates sin but He loves the sinner. That is a general truth. But when it comes to the sin of pride, God hates the unrepentant sinner too! Selah!

God is a God of love, but He is also a God of hate!!! God hates pride so much that He rejects and drives away all proud people from His presence. He will not answer their prayers. Even when the proud men are oppressed and in need, even when they cry out for relief, God counts their prayers as ‘empty pleas’ and He ignores them. God will not invite the proud men closer to His throne of grace, but He lets them stay ‘afar of’. God opposes them! (Job 35:12, 13; Ps 138:6). This is one of the most terrifying revelations in the Word of God. But it is the truth that sets us free from false ideas of ‘freedom’!

God promises to judge proud men! God said that He will ‘tear down the house of the proud’ (PV 15:25). The way Jericho fell down, this is how the family of the proud man falls and scatters. Like gangrene, pride is able to spread and to damage others. The treatment is radical surgery; often, the whole leg has to be amputated. The judgment of God affects the whole family and the proud man’s friends. This is the warning of love: stay clear from the proud! There is terrible danger around them!

What then is the solution? Come to the Cross! Come to Jesus! Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God! Submit to God! Submit to His ways! Come into His presence! That is where you belong! That is where you are safe! The God who blesses and heals you is the same that drives away the proud! Separate yourself from the arrogant and come home! The door is still open…

In Christ I declare:

I humble myself for Christ sake!

I separate myself from the proud and wicked!

My friends are humble brethren!

I dwell in the center of God’s presence and will!

Forever!

In Jesus name

Amen!