Tag: pride
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Day 247: The Pride of Tyre (Ezekiel 28:5)
Tyre was more than a city. Like Wall Street today, its name represented an entire economic system—wealth, commerce, influence, and power. None of those things are inherently wrong. But what happens when prosperity becomes our security, our identity, and eventually our god?
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Day 189: The Hardest High Place (2 Chronicles 26:16)
Even the best kings of Judah couldn’t always remove the high places. Our human nature helps us understand why.
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Day 175: The Clash of Experience and Arrogance (2 Chronicles 10:8)
Rehoboam didn’t ignore wise advice because he lacked options. He ignored it because he preferred affirmation over wisdom. His story is a timeless warning about the danger of surrounding ourselves with people who only tell us what we want to hear.
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Day 300: Proximity to Power (Luke 14:7-11)
8 “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, 9 and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with…