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DATE: Monday, September 22, 2025
THEME: The Faces of Pride (Part–4)
TITLE: When Pride Hides in Humility.
SCRIPTURE TEXT:
“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” — Micah 6:8 (ESV)
BY: EFFIONG ETOK
Carrier of God’s Word
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
The heaviest chains in hell will not be for rebels alone, but also for worshippers who pretended to be broken.
MESSAGE
Yesterday, the Spirit warned us about the pride that hides in success — how barns and crowns can blind the heart if gratitude dies. Today, he pulled back another mask of pride…
God has made His requirement plain: to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with Him. Yet how many walk humbly only in appearance, while their hearts secretly crave applause? This is the deceit of false humility. It may whisper, “I am nothing,” but deep inside longs to be exalted. One may bow before His throne, yet the bowing is only for men to see. Another may kneel at the altar, but only to act broken while the heart is unyielded. Some give with tears, but their gift is a stage performance. Others fast with a weary face, but only to be called spiritual. False humility sings louder than angels on Sunday and complains bitterly in secret on Monday. It claps its hands in worship, but inwardly says, “Notice me.”
Beloved, pride is deadly not only when it boasts, but when it kneels. To wear humility outwardly while resisting God inwardly is hypocrisy in holy robes. Micah 6:8 shows us the divine demand, but false humility pretends to meet it while living in silent rebellion.
LET’S PICTURE ETERNITY. Thieves will be there. Armed robbers, witches, rapists, kidnappers, terrorists—all under torment. Their place is expected. But imagine the horror of seeing “humble” worshippers and men of God kneeling beside them, weeping the same cry of regret because their humility was only a mask.
Nebuchadnezzar learned too late when his kingdom was stripped for pride. Herod, consumed by worms, perished for taking God’s glory. False humility deceives even its owner, but God is never deceived.
Beloved, what will it profit if we preach, sing, or serve, only to hear the dreadful verdict: “Depart from Me, I never knew you”? Better to be stripped by God on earth than to be shamed by Christ in eternity.
PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS
✦ Lord, even if I must be broken until nothing is left of me, do not let me share eternity with murderers, rapists, and killers. Save me from the fire that never quenches .In Jesus Mighty Name!
✦ By Your mercy, Lord ,let me not kneel in hell with liars and thieves; let my kneeling forever be before Your throne in glory, in Jesus’ Mighty Name. Amen.
BOTTOM LINE
From these four series, it is clear: pride wears many faces — in the heart, in confidence, in success, and even in humility. Yet every mask leads to the same fall, a fall no enemy causes but pride itself. Lord, strip me of every mask, break me of every pride, and clothe me forever with the garment of true humility, in Jesus’ Mighty Name. Amen.
