And so do we. Our pride kills us before anything else, gives power to whatever chokes our lives. Pride keeps the alcoholic from admitting she needs help. Pride prevents the offender from apologizing and the offended from forgiving so relationships can never be healed. Pride keeps a couple from going to a counselor for help.
Pride destroys a congregation competing for position against one another.
Pride prevents us from helping as we ought, serving as we ought, loving as we ought. Pride denies, isolates, controls us into self-destruction. Pride keeps us from submitting to the baptismal waters and the God who makes us whole. I looked in vain through all the recent books on virtue and character to find some word on humility. Not surprisingly, it wasn't there.