In the Christendom/Spiritual as well as in the secular world, Pride may well be a leader's worst enemy causing downfall of great many. Pride is very dangerous to unwary leaders and very subversive in a way it crept into one's life. It could be couched in pious term clinging tenaciously to people. It shows up in variety of disguises some obvious or subtle in others but all are lethal to ones effectiveness.
Pride is an offensive trait in secular leaders but even more replusive in spiritual leadership. It's pride that makes one to take credit not only for what people did but also for what God has accomplished making one to act as if God is irrelevant in the scheme of things. Attributing collective success to one's dynamic personality , compelling vission, intelligentsia propensity and sagacity coupled with humongous wealth disposition - presuming upon the glory and sovereignty of God forgetting God is a humbler. Nebuchadnezzer was possessed of bloated and over inflated ego but has God to contend with. Unknown to the proud that "The little that the humble has is better than the riches of many wicked " No matter one's pedigree, business acumen or widespread popularity God only is the ultimate and supreme.
It caught my fancy on a forum the various salaries and emoluments of University Professors with all inward and outward intellect. While one with only a mere professional certificate (C&G) not even a diploma is grossing millions monthly with retinue of PHD holders and others well and more horned graduates under - that is the supremecy of God over man. Promotion comes from God. (Ps 75:6-7, Ps 127 :1-2)
The great writer Chinua Achebe however said. -- "Those whose palm kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit must not forget to be humble. "
In the spiritual tenet , Pride is opposite of Brokenness while God resist the proud but gives more grace to the humble. Jm4:6.
UNBROKENNESS.
- Unruly act and behaviour as a result of heart not renewed. Ecc 8:11.
-- Heart operating as treasury of evil. Matt 12:35 --
-- Rubbishing and denigrating the Pre-fix of God's calling, using it to settle scores - can you deceive or stop God in any way?
-- Spiritual leaders must Shatter self -will giving way for the release of Holy Spirit Jh.5 :30, Lk22:4, Jh6:38
-- A genuine (Man of God ) believer must allow his/her hurts and pains to die in Christ rather than making case for self in people's court. only to curry human favour.
PREJUDICE - This causes a man to form an opinion or conclusion of self without facts of how he is perceived by others refusing to consider anything which does not support his thinking , this is a complete barrier to the attainment of knowledge for spiritual self atonement with God in particular.
Many a millionaire would doubtless be willing to barter their riches for the literary success of the Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka or spiritual success of Daddy E.O. Adeboye and consider it a good bargain. Exceptional moral success is rarely accompanied with riches yet financial success can't in anyway compared with it's Greatness and Grandeur.
In life , moral success like fixed mathematics principles will not obliviate it's stance for mediocrity as in pride, lack of integrity and over bloated ego.
THE PROUD HAS "GOD ONLY" TO CONTEND WITH.
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