{"id":66,"date":"2006-02-01T21:36:24","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T02:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2017-04-17T22:09:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T02:09:38","slug":"66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/66\/","title":{"rendered":"","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IF<\/strong> only we understood what is lost when we let ourselves become forked by the two pronged skewer of <em>pride<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The one prong is defensive:  &#8220;I am not wrong, or as bad as you say.&#8221; The second prong is despair:  &#8220;I am useless, a worthless failure.&#8221; In both cases (often the second prong follows the first), the person expends great energy hiding a basic human truth:  the need for God.<\/p>\n<p>Humility is the crown of the Christian. 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