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Jeremiah chapter 13 verses 8 and 9.

Then the word of the Lord came to me.

Thus says the Lord, even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Did you hear that language?

God says I will spoil the pride of my people. I will spoil their great pride.

We see this all over the Bible. Our God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble to quote directly

from James and many other places how God lifts up the humble and brings down the proud.

So I want to encourage each of us to examine our hearts today before God and to ask him to expose to show us any and all

pride in us, what C.S. Lewis called the great sin, because it's at the root of all

sin, thinking about ourselves and our ways above God and his ways, asserting ourselves in any way,

living for ourselves instead of living for our God.

Thinking too highly of ourselves,

preferring ourselves, our interests above others and their interests. I could go on and on, but here's the

question. What pride exists in you and your heart and your mind right now.

And let's just pray, God, please cleanse us of all of our pride.

God, we want to be free from pride.

We pray for humility. We seek humility from you. Oh God, please give us humility. Grant us the ability to see ourselves as you see us and to live for you according to your

ways according to your thoughts according to your thoughts, according to your desires, to love you with all our

heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love others as ourselves.

To Philippians, chapter two, put others above ourselves.

God, we pray for humility.

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