Humility

"Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up." James 4:10

It's easy to get comfortable with ourselves and our surroundings, and feel confident that we are responsible for our own accomplishments and fail to see that God has been there all along. It then becomes necessary for Him to give us the antediluvian treatment and topple our Towers of Babel to teach us a lesson that we could not learn on our own because it cuts against the grain of our human thinking. To be great we have to made small, to be lifted up we have to first lift up the Lord and others. It's a concept so simple, but one we have to consciously accept everyday to be successful in life.

In our moments of success and failure, triumph and temptation, prosperity and poverty, we must first remember to lift Christ up and then "He will lift you up."

...don't forget to read between the lines of your pride. Let Him do the lifting.