'Natural' Pride

The devil himself was described as the angel that covered (Ezekiel 28:14). He was in the very throne room of God and ministered to the Highest. How did He loose such an exalted position? Pride!

It strikes me in the bible, the passage that says”… the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day…” (Genesis 3:8)  A Being walking in a garden in the cool of the day, even if it is the voice of the Being doing the walking, strikes me as a pretty down-to-earth personality. No airs. Definitely has time to relax and appreciate the finer things as against the stress and hogging that goes with attention-grabbing and acclaim-finding. My God strikes me as a pretty basic personality- basic not for the absence of aura or charisma, character or even utmost Power but because He is thoroughly unaffected, free from all affectations, down-to-earth and for all He is and has, He is totally without pride.

This One and Only God of all the worlds, Creator of all things was and still is so humble that He desires a relationship with clay in the form of Man. How much more basic can you get? Splendorous Light, All Power, Immortal, infinite All Wise God, wanted, wants and still wants a relationship with Man.

Man however is proud, tending towards self-acclaim, self-aggrandizement and self-will. You know nothing about who you are but you will sooner do what you will than find your true purpose through your Creator.

The problem of pride in man begs the question- why do we want to flaunt? Who is so important we throw away reason, humanity and even God to impress?

The God who created us, for all He was and is and will ever be has never put schisms between Himself and any of His creatures. Serve me is all He asked. Yet tolerates your disrespect and is patient with your fallen nature though He had nothing to do with it. Ultimately He makes your innermost desires His business to bring you unto perfection. I wonder sometimes why he bothers and it rings in my heart- what He put into you- begging the examination of the fact that perhaps humans, all humans, lose a pivotal truth about themselves, who they are just by refusing to be and stay in the presence of the One who created them.

Man would generally not stop except in the face of loss or imminent loss (if they are given the priviledge and they are able to receive and understand it) that life is so fickle, the things we chase after so ephemeral and the accolades we grasp so short-lived and undependable to the point of insanity, that it is mind boggling and terribly tasking on the brain of any right thinking person, why humans would disrespect, destroy and even kill each other for power, fame or money.

Yes, perhaps the social sciences would explain these away with terms like ego and the like and how it affects human behaviour. But I think expecting or even simply just explaining by these is the exact reason humanity as yet does not understand some of its 'natural' inclinations to be perfectly unnatural.