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PRIDE

from: Valley of Vision

O THOU TERRIBLE MEEK,

Let not pride swell my heart.
My nature is the mire beneath my feet, the dust to which I shall return.
In body I surpass not the meanest reptile;
Whatever difference of form and intellect is mine is a free grant of they goodness;
Every faculty of mind and body is thy undeserved gift.
Low as I am a creature, I am lower as a sinner;
I have trampled they law times without number;
Sin's deformity is stamped upon me, darkens my brow, touches me with corruption:
How can I flaunt myself proudly?
Lowest abasement is my due place, for I am less than nothing before thee.
Help me to see myself in thy sight, then pride must wither, decay, die, perish.
Humble my heart before thee, and replenish it with thy choicest gifts.
As water rests not on barren hill summits, but flows down to fertilize lowest vales,
So make me the lowest of the lowly, that my spiritual riches may exceedingly abound.
When I leave duties undone, may condemning thought strip me of my pride, deepen in me devotion to thy service, and quicken me to more watchful care.
When I am tempted to think highly of myself, grant me to see the wily power of my spiritual enemy;
Help me to stand with wary eye on the watch-tower of faith, and to cling with determined grasp to my humble Lord;
If I fall let me hide myself in my Redeemer's righteousness, and when I escape, may I ascribe all the deliverance to they grace.
Kee me humble, meek, lowly.

my treasure chest

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward.
Hebrews 11.24-26

But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Phil 3.7-14

The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
Matthew 13.44

some more on pride

So, I've been reading this book, "Humility, the Forgotten Virtue" by Wayne Mack. I've learned a lot, and since I've only finished 3 chapter there's still tons to learn. But a couple things have really stuck out.

View each day as an opportunity to forget yourself and serve others. The act of service is innately humbling.

A person who complains about his circumstances does so because he thinks he deserves better.

Pride is a thing which should be unnatural to us, for we have nothing to be proud of.
Spurgeon