Here is what the Oxford Dictionary said about pride.

It's an overwhelming opinion of one's own quality, or merits.

And my beloved friend's pride is something we all have to deal with all the time.

You see, it was pride that caused Adam and Eve to be thrown

out of the garden. It was pride that keeps many people from coming to Christ. Pride prevents

many people from accepting God's free gift of salvation. Pride keeps professing Christians from submitting to the

Lordship of Jesus Christ. Pride blinds people as to their desperate need. Pride was the very thing

that caused Lucifer, the angel of light, to become the father of lies.

Pride hardened Pharaoh's heart and got him drenched in the Red Sea. It was pride that dethroned

King's soul from the throne of Israel. But before I keep going on this and explain what the Apostle Paul is saying here about pride,

I need to explain something about our use of the term pride.

Sometimes we use it somewhat erroneously.

For example, when we mean to say to one of our children and encourage them for what they've done,

we say, well, I'm proud of you. We say, I'm proud of you.

We say, I'm proud of you, right?

What we often mean is that we are so glad that they worked hard and accomplished something

significant, right?

Without this explanation, we make the mistake of developing in them and in us the wrong

understanding.

A more accurate way of speaking to our children or grandchildren, as I was telling this just

the other day to one of my grandchildren, thank God for empowering you, thank God for

gifting you, thank God for blessing you with a good mind and perseverance, etc.

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