How can success be dangerous? How could cultural values such as a strong work ethic and valuing self-sufficiency contribute to a prideful attitude and cause us to forget God? How can successful people avoid becoming prideful? These are just some of the questions to consider in this week’s edition of the Walking Talking Bible Project.
Bible Passages
The following Scripture quotations from The Berean Standard Bible (BSB) are provided for your convenience. Please feel free to use the Bible and translation of your choice.
Memory Passage: 2 Corinthians 4:7
2 Corinthians 4:7
7 Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
Connection Passage #1: Judges 7:2
Judges 7:2
2 Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many people for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
Connection Passage #2 Deuteronomy 8:11–14
Deuteronomy 8:11–14
11 Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.
12 Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
13 and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,
14 then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Connection Passage #3: Deuteronomy 8:17–18
Deuteronomy 8:17–18
17 You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
18 But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.
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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Berean Standard Bible (BSB).