SELF-INTEREST;
PRIDE: HUMAN

We are willing to join heartily in singing, “To God Be the Glory,” but we are strangely ingenius in figuring out ways and means by which we keep some of the glory for ourselves. In this matter of perpetually seeking our own interests, we can only say that people who want to live for God often arrange to do very subtly what the worldly souls do crudely and openly.…

Yes, we have it among professing Christians—this strange ingenuity to seek our own interest under the guise of seeking the interests of God. I am not afraid to say what I fear—that there are thousands of people who are using the deeper life and Bible prophecy, foreign missions and physical healing for no other purpose than to promote their own private interests secretly. They continue to let their apparent interest in these things to serve as a screen so that they don’t have to take a look at how ugly they are on the inside.

Isaiah 42:8; Philippians 3:10; 1 Timothy 1:15–16

I Talk Back to the Devil, 83.