Power is a dangerous thing.

History is littered with men and women who started well, gifted, humble, and blessed by God,

and somewhere along the way, began to believe their own press.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall

returns to one of the Old Testament's most sobering biographies. It's part of his series

called How Great Is Our God. In this message, we'll see a king who had everything and lost it

all in a single moment of breathtaking pride. His story is a mirror,

and what it reflects may surprise you.

Glory is worshipful admiration, highest praise, splendor, radiant beauty, magnificence, circle of light.

How important it is that we remember that that marks our God and no other.

To him belongs the glory.

To him goes all the credit.

To him we give our applause.

To him we stand in awe before him.

How easy to mix up the special delight of being chosen by God and then

feeling a sort of a heightened sense of pride, almost a smugness that I am among the elect,

and you're not. And therein lies so many of our struggles.

Osgenus hits at this in his wonderful book, The Call.

I say it's wonderful because it is my favorite of Osgenus's books.

It's the only one I understand, so it's my favorite.

And in it he writes this that is worth hearing.

Listen closely.

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