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Hey, you're listening to A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. We hope that you will leave us a review after you listen to today's episode. Let us know what you liked and what you learned. That would mean a lot to us. We're in Proverbs 16 through 18. C.J. we were talking before this episode about how this is a tough one for. For probably all people, but we both were like, man, we really wrestle with this. So what are we focusing on in these three chapter chapters today?
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B
So the thing I noticed in this chapter right away, which probably tells you about my own heart, was Proverbs 16:18. It says, Pride comes before destruction and an arrogant spirit before a fall. And this is a really well known proverb. Like this is. Even non Christians know this sort of saying or sayings that derive from this proverb. But this one hits me between the eyes every time. I know pride is probably something we all deal with, especially depending on how you define pride and all those sorts of things. But it's something I'm constantly, constantly dealing with in my own life. And I'm constantly trying to find ways to decrease, to allow the Lord to increase, to take a famous quote from John the Baptist. But pride is just really, really hard. And while pride on earth can lead to loneliness and bitterness and destroyed relationships and all of those sorts of things, I think this proverb asks us to consider the cost of spiritual pride as well.
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A
Hmm. Okay. Spiritual pride. Can you break that down a little bit more for us?
- [01:37]
B
Yeah. So I think at its core, a proud heart assumes it has no need for God. And that sort of heart is a heart that stands under judgment. And that's something that we just don't want to be a part of. So I'm reminded of this parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector in Luke 18. And the Pharisee, he's confident in his own conduct, and he stands proudly before God and he boasts in himself. But it's the tax collector who's aware of his own shortcomings. He's not boastful, he's not prideful, and he cries out to God for mercy. And it says, the text says that that is the one who went away having a right standing before God. That's the posture we're supposed to have. And it also reminds me of some of the episodes we've done on first and Second Samuel, where Hannah's song at the very beginning of Samuel talks about how, you know, the haughty or the proud will be brought low. But it's the humble who will be raised up by God. And this is just a theme we see all throughout Scripture, of course, that culminates with Christ and his attitude and how he is the One who laid down what he wanted. He laid down his life to lean into the will of the Father, and He picks his life back up because of it. And he's exalted above all because of that. And that we're promised a sort of similar eternity where when we deny ourselves and we pick up our cross and we pursue Christ and we humble ourselves before God, he promises to elevate us in the. In the world to come. And so much is just packed into this idea of pride that this, this proverb is just a really good one to. To pick up as a mirror and examine yourself.
- [03:13]
A
Yeah, and I'm glad we're talking about it because we've seen pride mentioned several times already in Proverbs, and we're going to see it several more times. So I'm glad we took a deep dive on it today. My takeaway from these chapters is another theme that I've seen bubbling to the surface all throughout Proverbs. And that's the theme of God's sovereignty. Proverbs 16:33 says the lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord. And I think we saw several other verses that just show that the Lord is in control of human decisions. He's in control of earthly events. He's in control of all things. And then in response to that, we also saw this call to trust in God because He is sovereign. And so that was a theme that I picked and was a takeaway for me out of our reading today. Okay, that wraps up chapter 1618. We're going to continue with Proverbs tomorrow.
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B
Awesome.