The Greatest Sin

With all of the furore over issues of sexual morality, one would think this area is the one with the worst vices. However, most Christian teachers would tell you that the utmost evil, is Pride. Other vices comes from the devil working on us through our animal nature. But Pride does not come from our animal nature, it is purely spiritual and consequently far more subtle and deadly.

Pride is the chief cause of misery since the world began. It always means enmity: not only between man and man, but enmity to God. With God, you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. As long as your are proud you cannot know God. The proud are always looking down on things and people. As long as you are looking down, you cannot see that which is above you.

The Bible has much to say about pride, none of it good. For example take Proverbs 16:5, “Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.” Luckily, we have a test where Pride is concerned. You can have no greater confirmation of Pride, that to think that you are humble enough. Be careful, lest this spiritual cancer find its way into your heart.