A young woman said to her pastor, “I have become aware of a sin in my life which I cannot control. Every time I am at church I begin to look around at the other women, and I realize that I am the prettiest one in the whole congregation. None of the others can compare with my beauty. What can I do about this sin?”
The pastor replied, “Martha, that’s not a sin, why that’s just a mistake!”
(Source: Family Times)
Being haughty is a sin that appears in the Scripture and in all places where human beings congregate.
Numbers 16:3
And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “You take too much upon yourselves, seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the Lord?”
Proverbs 6:16-17
There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to Him: haughty eyes…,
Give it some thought the next time you believe yourself to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Gary