James
4:1-10 / Mark 9:30-37
Be humble!
“God resists the proud.”
Charles Colson was a close aide to President Richard
Nixon. He was convicted in the Watergate scandal and sent to prison. As a
result of the Watergate experience, he underwent a deep religious conversion. One
book that influenced him tremendously was C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity. This
passage touched him, especially: “I don’t think I have heard anyone who was not
a Christian accuse himself of this vice. The more we have it in ourselves, the
more we dislike it in others. The vice I am talking about is Pride. . . . Pride
leads to every other vice. Pride is a spiritual cancer; it eats up the very
possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.”