President Benson stated: “Most of us think of pride a self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of there are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still messing. The central feature of pride is enmity –enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.”
Pride natural of a man that leads to destruction, unfortunately we fall easily into this sin, sometimes due to misunderstanding circumstances such as assumptions that give rise to pride, who loves more yields and creates healthy environment.
As we learned on reading assignments, solution for pride is in repentance and have the influence of our Lord in our lives, but it is a topic of choice, the antidote for pride is humility, meekness, submissiveness, by forgiving those who have offended us, by rendering selfless service, by going on missions, by getting to the temple more frequently, led ourselves be carried away by the Lord.
I was wondering about the causes of pride, what elements of live lead us to pride? Is power, money, race, culture? I think that it is ignorance, we are all equal, we are valuable human beings who deserve respect. There are differences between pride and dignity it is common to confuse this precepts.
What President Benson advices us submitting our will to His, what a beautiful blessing, three times in the Doctrine and Covenants recommended “beware of pride” in marriage, in family ways in which pride affects us is through the claim to achieve our desires over others. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. Why? If we are vulnerable beings with imperfections, what we should do is have a behavior that relies on solid and high values taking into account gender equity on marriage and from persuasion and conciliation lead our family asking for guide and support to our Heavenly Father though His Holy Ghost.
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