Pride, A Series of Blog Entries

Pride.  Many things could be said about this word, but mostly it is negative. Pride is what caused Satan to be kicked out of Heaven, because He tried to exhalt himself above God Almighty, but it didn't work.

How you are fallen from heaven,

O Lucifer,son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
For you have said in your heart:
I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’
Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the lowest depths of the Pit. ~Isaiah 14:12-15


 Pride was what led Eve to believe the serpent in the Garden of Eden that she would be able to disobey God's commands to no hurt or harm toward her position in God's will.

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’” Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.~Genesis 3:1-7


This spirit is still running rampant as one of the two main devices that Satan uses to encamp and overtake a person, their life and the lives of those around them. I am going to do a serious of blogs that will expose pride and its workings in the lives of people through it's relationship with other detrimental character traits and personalities.