Pride stretches across a wide spectrum of meanings. In everyday life it can be tied to self‑worth, achievement, dignity, or even a sense of respect. Yet it also reaches into vanity, insecurity, idolatry, and the desire for praise. It touches wealth, status, reputation, and the constant concern over how one appears before others. Some forms of pride seem acceptable to society, while others are clearly destructive, but Scripture does not treat pride as harmless. The Bible overw

“Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God… Ye must be born again.” (John 3:3–7) When a person is born again, their spirit is ignited and awakened by God. This is salvation — the moment God gives spiritual life to the elect. From that moment onward, the Holy Spirit indwells the believer and begins His work within them. Your spirit becomes aligned with the Holy Spirit, who becomes your shepherd, your lighthouse, and your guide. Your spirit is like a heart

Before salvation, every person is spiritually blind and spiritually dead. They may hear the gospel, but they cannot grasp it. Their heart is closed, their understanding is darkened, and they have no spiritual sight. “Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.” (Ephesians 4:18) “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.” (Ephesians 2:1) A bli