I found this post from Tim Challies to be insightful and convicting. It address a manifestation of pride. And since we talked a little about pride at last week's Bible study (it was one of the 10 "thoughts for young men and women" I adapted from JC Ryle), I thought it would be good to
post a link to Challies' article. Here is an excerpt
...while God calls us toward Christlikeness,
we prefer to call others toward us-likeness. God calls us to hold all
things up to the light of his Word, while we prefer to hold all things
up to the light of our own judgments and our own determinations.
Ultimately, we all long for conformity to us rather than to Christ.
This makes us useless counselors. We are useless counselors unless we can counsel from Scripture and toward
holiness rather than from our own arrogance and toward conformity to
us. This makes us miserable because we are always convinced life would
be easier and better if only others were more like us. This lessens our
usefulness to God and his kingdom ...
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