“I have made myself.” These four words are one of the main causes of divisions. Using one word instead of four would be “pride”. “Do not take pride in one man over against another,” Paul told the congregation at Corinth. “Over and against another” is division caused by pride.
Everyone has opinions. Truth is truth. Yet, truth for mankind is mostly like the wind. We either cannot grasp the truth or we go about our lives ignoring it till it blows hard into our face. When truth evades the proud, an opinion is presented as truth. A pair of prides presenting their opinions as truth is an argument that causes division.
Paul repeats to defeat their pride. “You received it. Why do you boast as though you did not?”
Pride is a snake hiding in the tall grass of my soul, all coiled up, ready to strike and infect me with its poison. Everyone has a snake in the grass of their soul. If you believe you do not have the pride snake in your soul, then that is pride telling you so. Do not idolize anyone. Catch the wind today.
