SELF-EXALTATION | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 3, 1887

SELF-EXALTATION.

Is THERE anything more offensive to good taste than pretentious littleness—an assumption of superiority where no foundation for it exists in fact! Yet there are many very small men who assume to be great, and whose whole bearing indicates the exalted opinion which they entertain of their abilities. As the apostle says, "They think of themselves more highly than they ought to think," and their lofty pretentions only serve to bring their deficiencies into fuller view. There is no greater evidence of a man's weakness than self-conceit, and it is well said of such, "There is more hope of a fool than of him." The more a man knows, the more fully he is conscious of his deficiencies, and the more humble and unassuming he will be. Men who seek for recognition are seldom worthy of it, while men whose worth entitles them to recognition have no need to seek for it. "He that humbleth himself shall be exalted," but "the lofty look of man shall be brought low."—Selected.