{"id":1148,"date":"2014-09-29T10:02:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T10:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2018-06-07T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T16:52:27","slug":"self-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Self Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edwin and Lillian Harvey, authors of the compilation Royal Insignia, included quotations from many authors, preachers, and missionaries who discovered by personal experience that pride is, as J. N. Darby puts it, \u201cthe greatest of all evils that beset us. \u201cAnd,\u201d Darby continues, \u201cof all our enemies it is that which dies the slowest and hardest; even the children of the world are able to discern this. Madam de Stael said on her deathbed, \u2018Do you know what is the last to die in man? It is \u201cself-love.\u201d\u2019<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69d2a84fbc68e5008966065' value='69d2a84fbc68e5008966065'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69d2a84fbc68e5008966065' value='Continue reading...'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69d2a84fbc68e5008966065' value='Show Less'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69d2a84fbc68e5008966065' ><br \/>\n\u201cGod hates pride above all things because it gives to man the place that belongs to Him Who is above, exalted over all. Pride intercepts communion with God, and draws down His chastisement, for \u2018God resisteth the proud.\u2019 Royal Insignia, p. 87.<\/p>\n<p>But not only does Royal Insignia include many warnings regarding the danger of pride, it extols the beauty of being nothing. \u201cIf I be content to be nothing,\u201d says R. C. Chapman, \u201cI cannot take offence; and when I am really humble and know myself a worm, I shall not complain if trampled on. Ibid, p. 82<\/p>\n<p>Luther said, \u201cNever are men more unfit than when they think themselves most fit, and best prepared for their duty; never more fit, than when most humbled and ashamed under a sense of their own unfitness.\u201d P. 96<\/p>\n<p>What is all righteousness that men devise?<br \/>\nWhat, but a sordid bargain for the skies?<br \/>\nBut Christ as soon would abdicate His own,<br \/>\nAs stoop from Heaven to sell the proud a throne.<br \/>\n\u2014<em>William Cowper. P. 96<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Royal Insignia is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their online Christian Bookstore.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69d2a84fbc68e5008966065' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#cc1818;;\" href='#'>Continue reading...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edwin and Lillian Harvey, authors of the compilation Royal Insignia, included quotations from many authors, preachers, and missionaries who discovered by personal experience that pride is, as J. N. Darby puts it, \u201cthe greatest of all evils that beset us. \u201cAnd,\u201d Darby continues, \u201cof all our enemies it is that which dies the slowest and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[374,380,381,382,376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}