We all have opinions; humility says, “I could be wrong”. Pride can cause great harm, but can never say, “I am sorry that I hurt you”; this is horribly dethroning to the self. Pride can disguise itself as spirituality; it can wear the clothes of the most sanctified saint. Underneath these garments there is deceit of others, but more blatantly so, the deception of one’s own self. The wolf in sheep’s clothes may not be someone else. How can such a one be redeemed form that? What level of self-awareness would make such a one cry out, “Who will deliver me from the body of this death”? (Romans 7:24). What would it take to say, “Unclean! Unclean! I am undone!” What deep level of self-awareness and knowledge of one’s own soul would be needed? Get truly alone with the Spirit of God and before the All-seeing Eye, cry out for cleansing fire.
“Then I said, ‘Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.’” Isaiah 6:5 (NASB)
