DAVIDIC DEVOTIONAL

30th July, 2019

HAUGHTINESS

David Abankwah

READ: Isaiah 3:16-26

Pride goeth before destruction, and an HAUGHTY SPIRIT BEFORE A FALL.

-Proverbs 16:18 | KJV

Haughtiness simply means to be blatantly and disdainfully proud: having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior. There are so many examples in the Bible for us to appreciate concerning people who were proud and haughty. Haughtiness is not a good character at all. It is a spirit as Proverbs 16:18 confirms. When you develop it, it becomes difficult for you to move forward in life and ministry. You may think you are progressing by exhibiting signs and symptoms of haughtiness, but you are rather in your retrogressive mode.

There was a certain Queen in the Bible who was very haughty. She exhibited the full-blown of what haughtiness is all about. This Queen is called Jezebel. First of all Jezebel showed one sign of haughtiness by serving other gods (having contempt for God) -1 Kings 16:31. Second, she went on to seize and kill prophets (having inferiority attitude towards God’s work) -1 Kings 18:19. Third, she went on to kill Naboth and took his property (blatantly showing her husband Ahab that taking over the possessions of others was not as difficult as it seemed to him) -1 Kings 21:5-15.

Fourth, she became haughty by dressing indecently which was a disdain exhibition of prostitution. Haughty looks are one of the things God hates so much (Proverbs 6:17). She did make-ups by putting on eye-shadow. She then decked her hair with hair creams as most women do now and posed seductively in the window to attract the New King called Jehu. For the Word of God to be true as Proverbs 16:18 tells us that haughtiness brings about a fall, Jezebel fell from the window unto the floor and her blood spilled.

Dogs had to eat her up leaving her skull and feet and hands serving as deterrent for us. One will ask, so David, is make-ups not good? If someone did make-ups and was killed by God, you have to advise yourself. It is a haughty look to make your face up and dress indecently and such people are abomination unto God (Deuteronomy 22:5). Today, the spirit of Jezebel are in churches now. No wonder people make their faces up, dress indecently and the Pastor can’t speak against it, all because, he will lose his tithes and offerings when he does so.

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