Pride. What is it really? The Bible is clear that God hates it & basically if God saves us from hell & forgives our sins, He WILL humble us in one way or another. It's a good lesson!  First, pride is thinking we control our own lives. God will show us that He is absolutely in control of EVERYTHING. We can't begin to fathom this but I was just thinking how God knows every single thought I've ever had & every single thought I ever will have in my entire life & that He knew all this before He even created me! Then I think of how He knows EVERY single person He is ever going to make & every single thought every one of them is ever going to have & He knew all this before He ever created a single human. So yeah, you still think we have control over anything?  Well there was a powerful king in the Bible ( King Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel Chapter 4 ) who thought his own talent & power had earned his great kingdom. The king literally went crazy & ate grass like an animal & grew some feathers & claws. God was teaching the king very specifically that God rules over men & appoints whoever He wants as ruler. When the king learned the lesson, God restored his sanity & his kingdom. Pride is the very part in us that wants to resist the rightful rule of God over His own creation in order to have our own stubborn, foolish, & sinful way. I believe we will find ourselves a little crazy now & then because God is trying to teach us something! Specifically I think the word humiliate might bring some memories to mind; it certainly does to my mind! I think the amazing part though is that God brings us past the humiliation, into a state of grace where we see His goodness & His refining in the situation, into an absolute state of blessedness. The clearest example I can think of this is childbirth. I mean, that is a common but rather humbling state for a woman, but honestly, who remembers the humiliating parts! It all serves God's purposes & the new life becomes the total focus for us.   Blessings, in Jesus, Cynthia