the insanity of pride

The Word for today: 
Job 28:1 -- 29:25

mark this:
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. (Job 29:14)

Pride is a kind of spiritual madness, an insanity.

We define insanity as a detachment from reality. In the same way, pride is a detachment from spiritual reality.

Pride happens when we don't know God. When we don't know God, we can't know ourselves. Everything gets out of whack. The things that are most important are seen as less important; the central becomes tangential. We turn the realities of the universe on their heads.

We crown ourselves king, and place ourselves in God's stead. We won't admit it, because the insanity of pride has blinded us to the truth.

That's where Job is in chapters 28 and 29. He claims to have put on righteousness. But the Bible teaches that we have no righteousness in which to clothe ourselves. Therefore, Jesus had to become sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him (1). It is God who puts His righteousness on us.

Job has clothed himself in a non-existent "righteousness." Job is seeing things that don't exist. Job's pride has made him spiritually insane.

But God, through methods which include suffering, is in the process of restoring clarity to Job's mind.

Job is being prepared to meet God. When he does, Job will once again see things as they really are.

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(1) 2 Corinthians 5:21