How deep can the evil from Pride become a reality?

How Deep can the Evil from Pride become a reality?

When we speak of vices that seem to enhance man’s everyday trek it will corrupt to the very essence of what we always try to avoid, but cannot. 

C.S.Lewis speaks of vice as Pride or Self-Conceit:  and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.  According to Christian teachers the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.  Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it's the  complete anti-God state of mind.  (Mere Christianity  Ch. 8). 

The unfortunate outcome regarding pride is the false allure that it will serve as a most serene pleasure that once embedded in our psyche there may not be an easy way to escape its hold on us.  

Again, C. S. Lewis says, “Greed may drive men into competition if there is not enough to go round; but the proud man, even when he has got more than he can possibly want, will try to still get more than he can possibly want, will try to get still more just to assert his power.  Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of Pride.”  (Mere Christianity  Ch. 8).

If the theme that the devil fell from heaven due to his Pride, becomes too great for us to absorb as truth, remember this;  once we relish the pleasure we may adhere to because of God’s generosity, the stealth of this evil will find its way into man’s weakness for applause and prevent him from seeking the very reason that God gives him out of love.  Love is the greatest gift because love is being like God.  God calls himself love in 1 John 4: 16.  “God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.”  

Had the angel, Lucifer, realized his failure and weakness to Pride, decided to change his decision to be like or better than God, would God have changed his mind to expel him?  The problem with that is the intense grip that Pride has on those who allow it to be their controller is nearly impossible without the grace of God which we must seek and hold onto by our own will.  

Pride is spiritual cancer:  it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.  If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step.  The first step is to realize that one is proud.  And the biggish step, too.  At least, nothing whatever can be done before it.  If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

(Mere Christianity Ch 8).

Pride places the individual in a precarious position because it goes before God and makes the whole scenario of praising ourselves by-passing the Creator and will be the reason we may not find our way back to his mercy.

Ralph B. Hathaway