Note to readers: Sorry about the one month hiatus. Needed to take a short break. That is why I did not type any essays of any sort (supposedly, but it is a long story); that explains the simple paragraphs and short quotes. Anyway, I’m back. Hope you people are still interested.



[Christian and Pride II]

C.S Lewis pointed something interesting about pride. When people take pride in something about themselves (may it be power, wealth, fame or things of the similar sort), the pride is never place in the thing itself. That is to mean that fundamentally, they are not proud of the power they hold per say. Then he goes on to talk about the idea that pride is actually place in the fact that they have MORE power then the others. So to say, pride is basically comparison. It will always be better, richer, more powerful, more beautiful etc. If the problem is purely material in nature so to speak, it would go away if we make both people equally filthy rich, both equally powerful. Hence pride is in fact a diseased sort of comparison, and this also explains the other sins such as envy and ingratitude.

So why did God places the idea of comparison into our finite grey matter? I cannot really come to a conclusive answer but I believed He placed a few hints here and there in my head. The idea of comparison originally conceived to help our limited minds to understand the concepts of God. Just like how a baby thinks that a 3 metres diving pool is deep, we tend to underestimate the characteristics of God. Just as how deep the ocean is, God's love is deeper. Just as how vast the outer space is to us, our God is bigger. Just as how the sun rises faithfully everyday, God is as faithful. God uses these comparisons to hint us of his existences and the descriptions of His characteristics. Comparisons are correctly used when they are used to compare things of man with God, and if we were to use it to compare things of man with the things of other man, its little wonder why we turned out like this. This is how Lucifer fell. He compared his glory with that of God and found it insufficient. He wanted to be more power, more glorious. Look where that got him.

Becareful of the comparisons.