HUMILITY IS ESSENTAL
After a spiritual, relational or moral failure, too many people want to pick themselves up, brush themselves off and keep on going. They want to skip the need to reconcile with those they have hurt. While we can not repair a broken relationship with God by works of the flesh, neither can we accomplish the purposes of God by treating people we have offended in a nonchalant or cavalier fashion. Humility is essential.
VERSES...
PROVERBS 8:13
13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
PROVERBS 13:10
10 Only by pride comes contention [By pride comes nothing but strife... NKJV]: but with the well advised is wisdom.
PROVERBS 15:31-33
31 The ear that hears the reproof of life abides among the wise.
32 He that refuses instruction despises his own soul: but he that hears reproof gets understanding.
33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honor is humility.
PROVERBS 16:19
19 Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
PROVERBS 1 Peter 5:5-7
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 resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.
