“God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” — James 4:6
Pride has been trouble since the fall.
Pride pushes God away.
Pride says, “I’ll do it my way.”
Pride says, “I’ve got it.”
The odd thing is, lowly people can walk in pride.
People with rejection oppression can walk in pride.
The rich and the poor can walk in pride.
What does pride do?
Pride is a mocker. Pride is disobedient. Pride is independent. Pride thinks for itself. Pride puffs up self. Pride is subversive to God and authority. Pride is deceptive. Pride is sneaky. Pride already knows. Pride wants to be seen. Pride “has it.” Pride has a closed ear. Pridehas a stiff neck. Pride has a busy tongue.
Pride won’t listen. Pride postures. Pride interrupts before it listens. Pride is resisting God, resisting wisdom, resisting truth, and resisting the Father’s methods.
God has to resist those who walk in pride.
After all, we are His offspring. We are His children. He created us for a holy dependency. Our life is fulfilled when we are in union with Him.
David humbled himself under the Word of the Lord.
I’m convinced that what the Father loved about David is that he would humble himself under the Word of the Lord to comply and obey. David wasn’t perfect by any means, but he was humble.
The prophet Nathan came to him with a rebuke. Any king could have taken the life of one who brought such a rebuke, but David humbled himself under the truth.
2 Samuel 12:7–13
Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.’”
So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”
And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.”
Acts 13:22
After removing Saul, He made David their king. God testified concerning him: “I have found David son of Jesse, a man after My own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.”