PRIDE:
HUMAN; SELF-INTEREST

I think that we ought to be mature enough to confess that many have been converted to Christ and have come into the church without wrestling with that basic human desire for honor and praise. As a result, some have actually spent a lifetime in religious work doing little more than getting glory for themselves!

Brethren, the glory can belong only to God! If we take the glory, God is being frustrated in the church.…

You can write it down as a fact: no matter what a man does, no matter how successful he seems to be, if the Holy Spirit is not the chief energizer of his activity, it will all fall apart when he dies!

Jeremiah 9:23–24; 1 Corinthians 10:31; Galatians 6:14

Renewed Day by Day, Volume 1, Jan. 22.