{"id":69690,"date":"2020-02-04T16:38:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T14:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=69690"},"modified":"2023-09-02T22:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:45:21","slug":"the-many-sides-of-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-many-sides-of-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"The Many Sides Of Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[503,952,440,372],"acf":{"old_id":"69690","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33992,"related_cahpter":"409","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"How do we tell the good from the bad?","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pride is enjoying an interesting ride these days. For many, \u201cpride\u201d is akin to arrogance, a vice and human tendency to be discouraged and overcome. Yet \u201cpride\u201d is also what helps marginalized groups assert their worth, even in the face of social disdain and scorn. Hence, Pride parades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How are we to discern the good kind from the bad? When is pride simply hubris\/hutzpah, an overweening self-absorption that renders real humanity impossible? And when is pride the flickering reminder of the divine light that is within each and every one of us?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah offers an important way to distinguish the two. He perceives God instructing: \u201cLet not the wise take pride in wisdom, nor the strong in strength, nor the rich in their wealth.\u201d Each of these three \u2013 wisdom, strength, and wealth \u2013 are measured not in absolute terms, but relative to others who possess less. Each of these gain the value and demonstrate their purpose when put in the service of human thriving and cooperation. We can use our wisdom for self-aggrandizement, but that hardly seems like something to be proud of. When we use your wisdom to produce consoling literature, or a scientific advance that can save lives, that is another matter entirely. Power, smarts, force: these come and go. Hardly worth attending.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut only in this may one take pride: in earnest devotion to Me, for I the Lord act with kindness, justice, and equity in the world, for in these I delight, says the Lord.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When our efforts are manifestations of kindness, when they advance the work of justice and equity, then they delight God (and that part of ourselves that is the spark of the divine within). If those are the goals, and we advance them by using what wisdom, wealth, or power we have for those worthy goals, that indeed is something to take pride in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The means (often mistaken for goals) are not worthy sources of pride. Only when we are clear that it is the goals (justice, equity, kindness) that matter, and only when we subsume our ephemeral talents in the service of those timeless goals, only then do we generate the kind of belonging and redemption that deserves our pride, and God\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":69691,"id":69691,"title":"jer9-arrogance2","filename":"jer9-arrogance2.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer9-arrogance2.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-many-sides-of-pride\/jer9-arrogance2\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer9-arrogance2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":69690,"date":"2020-02-04 14:38:41","modified":"2020-07-20 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