PRIDE:
SPIRITUAL; SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS

When self whispers an assurance to you that you are different—look out! “You are different,” self whispers, and then adds the proof. “You have given up enough things to make you a separated Christian. You love the old hymns, and you can’t stand the modern nonsense. You have a good standard—none of those movies and none of this modern stuff for you!”

You don’t really know what is happening to you, but you are feeling pretty good about everything by this time. But the good feeling is strictly from being coddled and comforted and scratched by a self that has refused to die. Self-trust is still there—and you thought it had gone!

Romans 7:18; 1 Corinthians 15:9–10; 2 Corinthians 4:5–7; 1 Timothy 1:12–15

I Talk Back to the Devil, 125.