PRIDE:
HUMAN

Humans try to ignore God, continuing to make their own ambitious, selfish plans. In the years before World War I, German’s Kaiser Wilhelm, largely blamed for the beginning of that first world conflict, was exceedingly headstrong. At a chapel service attended by the kaiser, a faithful German minister preached on the coming again of Jesus Christ to establish God’s kingdom of righteousness and peace throughout the earth. Wilhelm was greatly offended and spoke to the minister at the close of the service.

“I never want to hear that kind of a sermon again,” he warned the preacher. “Such an event is not at all in keeping with the plans we have for the future and the glory of our Fatherland!”

But Kaiser Wilhelm and, a generation later, Adolph Hitler are merely fading memories—illustrations of that vain human propensity to make ourselves big and God small.

Psalm 2:1–4; Proverbs 16:18; Isaiah 40:12–15; Jeremiah 10:10

Jesus Is Victor!, 18.