Today's Favorite Verse: 1 Kings 16:13, 25-26

Today's Favorite Verse: 1 Kings 16:13, 25-26

"For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him.

For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities."

What stood out to me was the word "vanities". I looked up what vanity means.

Excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, etc.; character or quality of being vain; conceit

An instance or display of this quality or feeling

Something about which one is vain or excessively proud

Lack of real value; hollowness; worthlessness

I pondered on how destructive pride is because it's the only tool Satan has against a righteous man. When you can flatter a person's vanity or pride you can destroy them, and all those that follow them.

"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."

(Proverbs 16:18)

"For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:"

(Isaiah 2:12)

"O that cunning plan of the evil one! O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are learned they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto the counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not. And they shall perish."

(2 Nephi 9:28)

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