Keep A Humble Heart!
"Pride goes before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall."
Proverbs 16: 18
A team of researchers in Paisley, Scotland, wanted to see if
pride really does come before falling. They wanted to know
if high levels of personal pride could predict increased risk of
future falls. They
studied more than six thousand adults who
were sixty and
over, and participants were asked as “to what
degree they felt
proud in the past thirty days,” and they were
also quizzed about their
falls.
Analyzing results showed the odds of falling were significantly
lower for people with high levels of pride, which, the researchers
said, disproved the biblical maxim. People with a positive self
image typically have a better posture and head position and
walk with a more positive gait.
Don’t worry. The results don’t contradict Scripture. The Lord
surely wants us to have as good a posture, head position,
and
gait as possible. But He also judges those who are haughty,
self-centered, boastful, and selfish.
People who over inflate their own importance develop
blurred vision, and the light of heaven is obscured by
the blinders of self-sufficiency.
Hold your head high, but keep a humble heart.
"Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself
than other people…It means freedom from thinking
about yourself one way or the other at all."
William Temple
