"For you deliver a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down."(Psalm 18:27)
There are some adjectives in the English language that when you hear them even if you didn't know the definition you can picture what it means. I think haughty has to be one of them.
The dictionary definition is disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: I have no problem picturing someone with haughty eyes. The type of person who looks down on others. And may be proud but probably with nothing to base that pride on.
I hope I'm not haughty. I can be flip and sarcastic from time to time, but I don't think more highly of myself than I ought to.
I won't boast of being humble, because that seems to me to be an oxymoron. But I will strive to have eyes that see the beauty in others and the dignity in them.
Blessings,
Ed
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