Pride Kills Progress

Pride is and has been the root of, I would say all evil. Sometimes pride can subltly come into our lives and slowly drag us away from the God we love and serve. Pride prevents learning. We are here to learn and thus pride prevents our mortal purpose. It is Satan's purpose to impede our progress and pride is one of his greatest tools. Elder Eyring gives us one way to fight pride in a speech given at BYU October 21 1997. He said, "It is simply to remember who God is and what it means to be his child. That is what we covenant to do each time we take the sacrament, promising always to remember the Savior. Because of what has been revealed to us about the plan of salvation, remembering him can produce the humility that will be our protection. And then, as we will see later, that same choice to remember him will in time produce in us greater power to learn both what we need to know for living in this world and in the life to come." Maintaining this eternal perspective and knowledge of who we are can save us from pride. Not only should we know that we are children of God but we should also keep in the front of our minds that so is everyone else. Pride separates us from those around us, putting us above the rest, while the end goal in life is to be in the Celestial Kingdom with everyone after this life. There is no class system in God's eyes. To avoid having to be humbled by circumstances and experiences in life we can keep in remembrance the Atonement of Jesus Christ and what it means to all of His children.