The Sickness is Growing Exponentially

A growing sickness in our country has overtaken nearly everyone, except the born again believers, that illness is an elevated sense of our own importance.

I say it this way because to become born again one must first confess that they are not worthy of anything but death because of the sinfulness that dwells in us.

Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"

When we become born again Christ puts in us a new heart, sensitive to right and wrong, so much so, that the slightest sin against God leaves us miserable until we confess it to God, asking Him to cleanse us from it.

Ezekiel 36:26 "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh."

After knowing that we are not worthy of salvation, that Christ had to die for us, makes us understand that we are nothing and He is everything. Anyone who does not want to admit this, is choosing not to look at their own heart. When we compare ourselves with God's standard we see how void of righteousness we are without Him.

No one can walk in pride while at the same time seeking Christ. We walk in confidence in Him, but have no pride in ourselves.

Proverbs 11:2 "When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom."

Proverbs 16:5 "Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished."

Proverbs 29:23 "One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor."

Proverbs 16:18 "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."

Proverbs 26:12 "Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him."

James 4:6 "But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Jeremiah 9:23 "Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,"

Philippians 2:3 "Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves."

Romans 12:16 "Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight."

Proverbs 8:13 "The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate."

1 Corinthians 13:4 "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant"

Proverbs 30:12 "There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth."

Proverbs 12:15 "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice."

1 Timothy 6:4 "He is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,"

2 Corinthians 10:12 "Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding."

Let us compare ourselves with the Holy God, then we will see how low we are and that we deserved death. It is then that we can feel humble and grateful for what Christ did for us on that terrible cross. Blood had to be spilt, the blood of the Perfect Lamb, to save us from ourselves. How could we be anything but ashamed of ourselves, but glory in how much He loved us anyway.