Pride keeps us from God

“In his pride the wicked does not seek Him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.” Psalm 10:4
Have you noticed that people don’t give God credit for anything these days, except maybe natural disasters? People study nature and pontificate about how it ‘must’ have evolved from this, that, or the other – yet they don’t stop to consider that it is God’s creative power that is responsible for the complexity we see in every single living thing.
The reality is, God is involved in everything in this world, both spiritual and physical. He is the One who created it in the first place, and He is the One who is sustaining it to the present day. Physicists talk about the strong and weak nuclear forces (as two of the four primary forces in the universe, the other two being the electrostatic and gravitational forces), but they don’t really understand how they arise.
Why don’t people seek God, either from observing creation, or events in history? This verse tells us, because of their pride. You see, to acknowledge that God created the world, is to acknowledge that He created me. This means He is superior to me, and I am accountable to Him. He has decreed how I should live, and when it all boils down, people don’t want to live in a way that is pleasing to God. They want to please themselves and feed their sin nature. The first step to come to God is to set aside this pride, humble yourself and utter the most difficult words known to man: ‘I’m sorry; I was wrong.’ Don’t let your pride keep you separated from God. Your eternity depends on it.