We will continue to look at 1 Peter 5:5: "Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble." Today will focus on the phrase "for God resisteth the proud." This should be warning enough to remove pride from us, but many people still struggle with it. Should we take Peter seriously when he penned these words? What does it men that God will resist the proud? The word "resist" means "to set an army in array against, to arrange in battle order." The clear meaning of the word is that God is coming against the proud like an army coming to engage in battle. This should be enough to persuade us to eliminate pride from our lives. Who wants God to come against them to battle?
William Burkitt explains this verse as follows: "For God resisteth the proud, sets himself as in battle-array against them, but giveth fresh supplies of grace to the humble; because more grace is promised to the humble, and the humble soul is more fitted, prepared, and disposed to receive farther measures of grace from God. God sets himself against proud men to bring them down, but the humble he doth countenance and exalt."
Today in your quiet time before the Lord, search your heart for pride. If you find some, ask God to take it away from you. You don't want pride because pride will cause God to come against you in full battle array. We desire God to fight our enemies and know this, that pride is an enemy of your soul. Cry out to God if you find pride in your heart. Seek Him and His deliverance from pride; He is faithful and will answer your heart cry for freedom.
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