Sometimes when God gives us something really precious and good, our tendency is to want to hoard it, and to fear losing it. I started thinking about one of these things God has given me, last night, and I was thinking, "What if I lost it?" And the thought scared me.
So then I wondered whether I should completely discount it.
Then I realized something. No, I should not completely discount it, or desire to get rid of it.
Rather, pride is selfish. It wants to hoard things like intellect or talent or beauty or material wealth or even loving relationships, because pride fuels selfish ambition. It wants these good things all for itself, to further itself. Faced with the concept of loss, it shies back in fear.
Pride is not only a fearsome but a fearful vice.
But humility - humility can properly cherish these good things, because it is concerned about giving the glory to God - even in loss would it glorify God.
I can fully thank God for the good things He has blessed me with, whatever the amount, if I am fully concerned with His glory. And I don't have to fear losing them, either, if I am obsessed with the right things such as being a slave to righteousness and God's glory!
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