"The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
and perverted speech I hate." - Proverbs 8:13
"Run from pride, for it is a passion more treacherous than any other. Covetousness and love for wealth spring from it as well as hatred, wars, and fights. For those who want more than they have will never be able to stop. Their desires come from nothing other than their love of displaying their accomplishments…. If we cut off pride (the head of all evil), we would kill all the other members of wickedness with it. Then nothing could keep us from living on earth as though it were heaven. Pride doesn’t just thrust its captives into wickedness, but even co-exists with their righteousness. When it can’t get rid of all their virtues, it severely damages their ability to exercise them. It forces us to work hard and deprives us of the fruit. . . . Therefore, if we want to earn glory, we must flee from human glory and only desire glory from God. Then we will obtain and enjoy both through the grace and loving-kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ." - Chrysostom
How many times today have guarded your pride? Maybe you have guarded your position. Maybe you have strived for wealth far beyond what you need so that someone else might look at you as being better off than the next person. As God's Word says, and Chrysostom describes so eloquently, a believer's pride can be one of the most devastating of sins, yet it can be the one sin that we so easily do not see. May God guard us from our pride and humble us in the Spirit.
from: http://earlychurchfortoday.blogspot.ca/2015/01/daily-devotion-2-run-from-pride.html