2 Chronicles 25:19 (NASBStr)
You said, ‘Behold, you have defeated Edom. ’ And your heart has become proud in boasting. Now stay at home; for why should you provoke trouble so that you, even you, would fall and Judah with you?”
The King of Judah, Amaziah, had some victories in his life (he won the war with Edom). As a result he thought he could go after a bigger nation, in this case, Israel, his brother. The King of Israel, Joash, sent him the above message trying to persuade him to not allow the pride in his heart to make him think he could do more than he could. We have here one of the great lesson's in life about confidence vs. pride. There is one thing to have confidence in The Lord that God can and will do great things for us and through us. There is another thing to think that since you had the strength to conquer one area you have the power to continue in another. We do this with sin in our lives many times. We overcome one sin and think we did it in our strength and then we are totally crushed by the flesh in another area. When our hearts become filled with pride we put ourselves in great danger for failure. Pride clouds the mind in regard to decision making. Pride often decreases work ethic because pride focuses on the past accomplishments not the future demands. Pride says, "This is what I have done ...!" Faith says, "God help me to do this ...!" Pride brings us all down because it focuses on what we think we are in regard to greatness. Faith focuses us on God because we believe He is great.
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