Posts Tagged ‘pride’
Humility & Wealth
It seems that it’s nearly impossible for these two characteristics to coexist in a person. I believe that it’s easy to have self-confidence in my own abilities to perform and forget that the Lord is the One Who gifted me and blessed me. He is the Source of all that I know and all that…
Read MoreGloating
This to me is not an attractive characteristic. Gloating means “to contemplate or dwell on one’s own success or another’s misfortune with smugness or malignant pleasure”. Gloating carries with it a huge thread of arrogance as well. This is not a characteristic that is becoming for a Christ follower. In Ezekiel, the Lord punishes Tyre…
Read MoreStiff Neck
There have been times when I awake in the morning and I’ve slept wrong and my neck is very stiff. It’s hard to turn my head side to side when I’ve feeling “stiff neck pain”. I have read many times in scripture where God refers to His people as “stiff necked” people. I came across…
Read MorePride & Arrogance
Pride is a “feeling of deep pleasure and satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements or the achievements of someone very close” to me – like one of my kids. Arrogance is “having an exaggerated sense of ones own abilities and importance. These two can be closely related when I’ve accomplished something that I’m proud to…
Read MoreHumility
This is a word that if you know you have it, you may have very well lost it. Humility means “a modest or low view of one’s own importance”. I believe that there are times when everyone feels a bit too confident in his or her own ability. I am learning every day more and…
Read MoreBoasting & Bragging
I’ve never been a fan of someone who brags a lot. I’ve been around people who thought that they were “all that”. It doesn’t take long to figure out that most of the time they are pretty prideful and puffed up. It’s hard to work with someone who thinks more highly of himself than he…
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