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Proud People as Trees Tumbling

Proud People as Trees Tumbling

Pride month is a reminder that "there is no peace for the proud."

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People are compared to trees in the Bible. Tall Trees as proud people brought low.

See, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will lop off the boughs with great power. The lofty trees will be felled, the tall ones will be brought low - Isaiah 10:33

June is called PRIDE Month as if PRIDE is honorable and good.

Daniel Webster (1782-1852), a renowned U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, a former United States Secretary of State, and the man for whom Webster’s Dictionary is named, defined pride in his 1828 dictionary:

Pride - (n.) Inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, accomplishments, rank or elevation in office, which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.

God tells us in the Bible that He despises pride and will bring down the prideful person. GOD calls pride “the way of evil” (Proverbs 8:13)

Jesus said, “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” (L…

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