EGO – A small word with a definition that should be a warning to all.  It’s described as the self; the individual as self-aware; conceit.

EGOISM – the tendency to be self-centered; selfish; selfishness.

Ego and pride have the same definitions. Both ego and pride are vices of which no one in the world is free and which everyone loathes when they see it in someone else, and of which hardly anyone ever imagines that they are guilty themselves.

The bigger our ego, the more we notice and dislike it in others.

This morning, I was reading “The Word for You Today,” and it spoke of ego and described it as Edging God Out.

Ego always means enmity — it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurable superior to yourself.

Unless you know God as that — and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison — you do not know God at all. As long as you are proud, you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people. And, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

For ego is spiritual cancer. It eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

I was motivated to write about this vice called ego, because I can relate with it very much. I’ve had enough of that in my life and still have too much.

EGO — Edging God Out. It’s something I must remember daily.

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