Proverbs 13:10: By pride comes nothing but strife, but with the well-advised is wisdom.
Insight
It is an old saying, that “it takes two to make a quarrel.” Where the effort to maintain a foolish dignity prevails, or covetousness leads the heart to desire what belongs to an other, contention speedily is stirred. But if met by lowliness and grace on the part of the offended one, how soon must the strife cease! With the well-advised is that wisdom which enables him to give the soft answer that turns away wrath. In the matter of the strife between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot, we see how pride was at the root. Most effectually did Abram meet it, when he offered first choice to the man who had no title whatever to the land which Jehovah had given to the other (Gen. 13). 1
Application
If there is even the slightest evidence of strife in your life, follow the trail, and it will lead you back to a campfire of pride. If you are in that place, put the fire out immediately with repentance or it lead to personal destruction. Pride is the devils number one tool to ruin you. It works in his favor 100% of the time.
Motivation
Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: Matthew 7:24
If you allow pride to bite you, it will become a venom that leads to sure death. – TWEET IT
Prayer
Father, forgive me for my prideful thinking that undermines Your Lordship in my life.
1. Ironside, H. A. (1908). Notes on the Book of Proverbs (pp. 146–147). Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux Bros.
