“God resists the proud.”
-JAMES 4:6
Our
automatic assumption is that anything which resists us or hinders us is
of satanic origin.
Yet we learn from James 4:6 that there is Someone Else who can resist
us. There is Another Who carefully watches what we do, and frequently
hinders us from making progress. It comes as a shock and surprise to
some Christians to see one day that God, not the devil, is resisting
them. The Lord Himself resists us, closes doors, causes things to be
unfruitful, and spoils all our plans. How so? Because “God resists the
proud.”
This
resistance from God is insurmountable. It is a fearful thing to fight
the Lord. We spend most of our lives wrestling with God instead of
cooperating with God, and in the end we have nothing to show for it. So
much time and effort is wasted because we proceed in our own, stubborn
way. We attribute all difficulties to the devil, or to other people, or
our circumstances, or our environment, and
fail to recognize that the Lord Himself is resisting us.
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