Micah 2:1 Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance. Therefore thus says the Lord: behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster.
Psalms 7:14-16 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.
Proverbs 6:12-19 A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing. There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness.
We don’t have to look very hard to hear lies, discord, lying tongues, wicked plans, and the haughty. Haughty is not a word we use but a quick search in a thesaurus gives us a much clearer picture of this word; (proud, vain, arrogant, conceited, snobbish, stuck-up, pompous, self-important, superior, egotistical, supercilious, condescending, lofty, patronizing, smug, scornful, contemptuous, disdainful, overweening, overbearing, imperious, lordly, cavalier, high-handed, full of oneself) We see it in sports, entertainment, news, business leaders, doctors, professors, teachers, and local, state and national politicians. It doesn’t matter if you look at it is locally, regionally, or nationally. It is there and it seems to be the norm rather than the exception. If this is the norm what keeps us grounded and humble before God? Many of us can thank God for giving us parents who instilled this in us throughout our informative years. We can see what is in their heart by their words and actions. We compare what they do and say to what we were grounded in. Hopefully, that was godly parents and the word of God. Without this foundation, we may think this haughtiness is normal, though it should not be. God’s Word is very clear on this and He will bring low those who are. Keep these haughty adjectives handy when you read articles or listen to podcasts, or watch reports on TV. They will help you take a proper perspective on what they are saying and how they say it. None of us are above being like this and if we stay in God’s Word, it will be light until our soul and will guard our heart and mind against being drawn into these very unholy thoughts and actions.