Pride: Man's Deepest Foe

Have you ever thought about why you do what you do? Have you ever considered your motives when you do something? Well, if you think back, a lot of the motives are selfish or prideful. Pride  and confidence are two different things.
Confidence is the ability to do something with certainty. When you're confident about something, you're certain. Pride is thinking of yourself highly, much more highly than you should. Charles Spurgeon said that pride is a "grondless thing" and a "brainless thing" and "the maddest thing that can exist".
If you think about it, it's pretty foolish to be prideful. You're prideful that you scored the winning goal for your team, and you brag about how you brought your team victory. Now, yes, it's great to be excited and happy when you win but not prideful. As you look on that goal that you made then comapre it to the many other goals that others have made, is there really anything to be bragging about? How many others contributed to that game? How many others scored winning goals? Plenty. There's no I in team as the saying goes, and pride is putting that extra I in team whether you realize it or not.
Everyone's prideful, and everyone makes mistakes, but as Christians we learn from those mistakes and try harder not to repeat them. We have a Savior that gave all to save us. He left a heavenly kingdom to come to a sin cursed world todie an agonizing death save sinners. What humility! We have absolutly no reason to be prideful or boast.