Turn Back From Pride

 

Oh, you who live with prideful hearts,
Disdaining one and all,
Be cautious that self-righteousness
Does not cause your downfall.
 
Yours isn’t the voice in command,
Despite what you hold true,
And many on whom you look down
See false pretense in you.
 
Turn back from your self-worship, child,
And turn instead to Him
Whose hand has formed what you deem yours,
Even to heaven’s rim.
 
Be careful that your pride does not
Lead you too far astray.
For there will be a reckoning
To which we’re called one day.  
 
Don’t let a prideful heart destroy
All that His grace provides,
But live in humble gratitude
That His grace still abides.
 
The choice is yours, by His decree,
But please remember this,
There’s only one Lord over all.
Your pride you must dismiss.
 
Obadiah 3-4
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?” Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the Lord.
 
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.