Welcome to today's encouragement from your friends at Our Daily Bread. Today's reading titled

Brot Low was written by Marvin Williams. Pride proceeds and often leads to humiliation, something a man in Norway found out.

Not even dressed in running clothes, the individual arrogantly challenged Karsten Warholme,

the world record holder in the 400-meter hurdles, to a race.

Warholme, training in an indoor public facility, obliged the challenger,

and left him in the dust. At the finish line, the two-time world champion smiled when the man

insisted that he'd had a bad start and wanted to race again. In Proverbs chapter 29, verse 23, we read,

Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor. God's dealings with

the proud is one of Solomon's favorite themes in the book. The word pride or haughty in these

verses means swelling or puffed up, taking credit for what

rightfully belongs to God. When we are filled with pride, we think more highly of ourselves

than we should. Jesus once said, those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who

humble themselves will be exalted.

Both he and Solomon direct us to pursue humility and lowliness.

This isn't false modesty, but right-sizing oneself and acknowledging that all that we have

comes from God.

It's being wise and not saying things arrogantly in haste.

Let's ask God to give us the heart and wisdom to humble ourselves, to honor him and avoid humiliation.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Proverbs chapter 29 verses 18 through 27.

Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint, but blessed is the one who

heeds wisdom's instruction.

Servants cannot be corrected by mere words, though they understand they will not respond.

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