This narrow way

In today’s culture, pride has become something to be celebrated. This group’s pride and that group’s pride. We have an entire month dedicated to LGBTQ pride. There are parades and official proclamations promoting it as something to be admired. However, God’s Word has nothing good to say about pride. Nothing. From Deuteronomy to Isaiah to Proverbs and throughout the New Testament, God looks at pride with the utmost contempt.

“There are six things which the Lord hates, Yes seven which are an abomination to Him.” Proverbs 6:16. Number one on that list? Haughty eyes.

“Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before stumbling.” Proverbs 16:18.

“Haughty eyes and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked is sin.” Proverbs 21:4

Moses warned the children of Israel about the corrupting effects of pride.

“…then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” Deuteronomy 8:14.

The New Testament calls pride “defiling” (Mark 7:22). In 2 Timothy 3:1-2 Paul writes about the terrible times in the last days and lists the characteristics of men in those days. No surprise “lovers of themselves” is number one on that list, too. John writes on 1 John 1:16 that the “boastful pride of life is not from the Father but is from the world.”

The originator and instigator of the attitude of pride, arrogance, and self-exaltation is of course, Satan himself. Isaiah 14:13-14

“I will ascend to heaven, 

I will raise my throne above the stars of God; 

I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north;

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, 

I will make myself like the Most High.”

Of all of man’s pride, arrogance, and self-exaltation in what he is, what he has, and what he does, there is none greater than what is being inflicted upon our society by the Alphabet Mafia (LGBTQIA…infinity). Their “pride” goes directly back to the last of Lucifer’s 5 I Wills. I will be like the Most High. In fact, I’ll add that it goes even beyond that. I will be the Most High. God made a mistake, he put me in the wrong body, I know better than God so I’ll correct his error. In essence, I am God. There is not a clearer example of a Romans 1 depraved mind than one that sets itself up as God.

“You shall have no other gods besides me.” Again, Number One. Exodus 20:3.

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain for the Lord will not leave him unpunished…” v. 7.

There is nothing that takes the name of God in vain more than bringing into disrepute his character, his very existence, and questioning his work in creation. Nothing. God doesn’t make mistakes. That is a lie straight out of the pit of Hell and another reason why God’s judgement has fallen on America.