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PRIDE—ITS RESULTS

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 23, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 33, No. 9.

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PRIDE—ITS RESULTS.

By A. S. Hutchins

THE sin of pride is repeatedly rebuked in the strongest terms in the Holy Scriptures. It is a characteristic of the Devil. 1 Tim. iii, 6. Ezek. xxviii, 17. “An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.” Prov. xxi, 4. It is hateful to God and to Christ. Prov. vi, 16, 17; viii, 12, 13. And those who foster this heinous sin in their hearts, are an abomination to the Lord. Mark the language: “Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord.” Prov. xvi, 4. It defiles man, and hardens the mind. Mark vii, 20, 22. Dan. v, 20.
Pride is a hindrance to seeking God. “The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.” Ps. x, 4. All who are thus deceived and misled, will be brought to debasement and final destruction. “A man’s pride shall bring him low.” Prov. xxix, 23. “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” Chap. xvi, 18.
Alas then! for false teachers, [1 Tim. vi, 3, 4.] and all the haughty and rebellious of this last generation of men. How certain, how terrible their reward!
With these scriptures before us, can the Christian say with the worldling, “We need pride enough to be decent?” God is well pleased with decency and order. Yea, he enjoins it upon us. “Let all things be done decently and in order.”
Now a refined taste, a sanctified judgment, and a good sense of propriety, will lead to the observance of this important injunction, without pride of heart, or an appearance of pride.
God assures us, that with the “lowly is wisdom.” “The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.” Ps. xxv, 5. “Oh! love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.”
A. S. HUTCHINS.