Wednesday, April 19 Pride is before a crash, and a haughty spirit before stumbling.​—Prov. 16:18.

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Wednesday, April 19

Pride is before a crash, and a haughty spirit before stumbling.—Prov. 16:18.

 

Satan wants us to develop an unbalanced sense of pride. He knows that if we allow improper pride to dominate us, we will become like him and lose out on gaining everlasting life. Accordingly, the apostle Paul warned that a person might “get puffed up with pride and fall into the judgment passed on the Devil.” (1 Tim. 3:6, 7) That could happen to any one of us, whether we are new in the truth or we have been serving Jehovah for many years. Pride is a form of selfishness. Satan tries to get us to be selfish, to focus more on ourselves than on Jehovah, especially when we face a challenge. For example, have you been falsely accused? Or have you been treated unjustly? Satan would love to see you blame Jehovah or your brothers. And the Devil wants you to think that the only remedy is to do things your own way rather than to follow the guidance Jehovah gives you in his Word.—Eccl. 7:16, 20. w21.06 15 ¶4-5

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Humility is a quality that always needs refining.  Because of inherited sin and Satan we are bound to stumble.