Pride pushes to please and placate for privileged positions.

Can this be said of you?

  Muhammad Ali, a boxer, declared “I’m the greatest.”  And as a boxer he probably was one of the greats.  Individuals and teams in the sports world battle to be the best, the greatest by winning tournaments.

In politics, people parade around to be picked to lead (whether qualified or even effectively able to lead)!

Human Perspective
From a human point of view it is reasonable to promote oneself to a position in which to be honored.  (As many feel they richly deserve.)

The twelve disciples fell into that quagmire of thinking…they argued among themselves about which of them might be the greatest.
(Luke 9:46)

Biblical Perspective
From a Biblical point of view (which is God’s perspective) we are to let God promote us to the position which will honor Him.

(NASB) 1 Peter 5:6-7 “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He might exalt you at the proper time,
7 casting all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.”

(NIV) 1 Peter 5:5 “Young men, in the same way be submissive to those who are older.  All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because,

‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

(NASB) Psalm 138:6 “For though the LORD is exalted,
Yet He regards the lowly,
But the haughty He knows from afar.”

(NASB) Psalm 40:4 “How blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust,
And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.”

(NASB) Psalm 101:5 “Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy;
No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure.”

    ~Your confidence is to be in God alone~ 

Greatness…From whose perspective?