#WordForTodayDevotional
Saturday June 18, 2022
CHARACTERISTICS OF YAHWEH’S KIND OF LOVE (5): IS NOT INFLATED WITH PRIDE
… love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.5 It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); …
I Corinthians 13:4-5 (AMP)
The very word translated “pride” is the Greek word ‘phusioo’ meaning to “puff up” or “blow up.” The English idiom “having a big head” communicates the same idea. To be puffed up is to have an inflated opinion of oneself. According to William Penn, the founder of the Colony of Pennsylvania, “A proud man then is a kind of glutton upon himself; for he is never satisfied with loving and admiring himself; whilst nothing else, with him, is worthy either of love or care” (from No Cross, No Crown, chapter XII). In pride we become the objects of our own love; in humility we learn to love others.
Prince Chimaobim - Royal Life Ministries 