Sometimes people don't set out to be proud. I have had to catch myself straying and pull myself back. From time to time I watch out to ensure I'm
If one isn't careful pride can creep in unnoticed. So, I wrote this to remind myself of what pride is because if you can identify it you can defeat it.
I hope this helps you as much as it has helped me. I recommend you use it as a scan and make adjustments where necessary. So, what is pride?
Pride Scan 1
Pride is issuing counter instructions to the one(s) God has given.
Pride is the belief that your plan for you is better than God's plan for you.
Pride is setting yourself in opposition to someone you know God has anointed.
Pride is making jest of a man or woman of God and spreading information about their short comings (even if the facts are true).
Pride is the unwillingness and/or the inability to give people the credit that is due them.
Pride is taking the praises for something you didn't do.
Pride Scan 2
Pride is treating a fellow believer like you're worth more than him or her; as if a better blood redeemed you.
Pride is the unwillingness and/or the inability to share your finances with God and people when very obvious financial liftings are taking place in your life.
Pride is the unwillingness and/or the inability to apologise when you're wrong.
Pride is the unwillingness and/or the inability to express appreciation.
Pride is the unwillingness and/or the inability to ask for help when you need it.
Pride is despising your "juniors" or those not as privileged as you are.
Pride Scan 3
Pride is taking offence when people don't give you honour and respect as you would like it because you perceive yourself to be someone very important.
Pride is taking offense when your presence in a place is not publicly recognized and celebrated.
Pride is carrying about a superiority complex (feeling for some reason you're better than others).
Pride is carrying about an inferiority complex (thinking and concluding that your degraded opinion of yourself is superior to God's opinion of you).
Pride is the refusal to accept apology; it is insisting continuously on the fact that you've been hurt.
Pride is refusing to retrace your steps after God clearly corrects you.
Pride Scan 4
Pride is the unwillingness and/or the inability to show respect to/for others.
Pride is the unwillingness to receive instructions from your 'superiors' (those above you in a defined organization or setting).
Pride is being convinced that you're special but others are not.
Pride is sticking to your views even though you know they are causing division(s) in the household of God.
Pride is trying to oust a current leader installed by God and promoting an agenda to take their place,
Pride is refusing to submit to being led by someone else because you believe you have a very rare, unique and special relationship with God.
Pride Scan 5
Pride is the unwillingness to seek and/or adhere to godly counsel.
Pride is seeing and carrying yourself as a mini-star (a celebrity or movie star of some sort) instead of seeing yourself as a minister (a servant).
Pride is the unwillingness to pray, the illusive confidence that you can handle the issues of life without a culture of seeking help and strength from God in prayer.
Pride is the name of the foolishness that says there is no God.
Pride is thinking you no longer need to ask God for grace and mercy.
Pride is reading all these and instead of doing an introspective inventory, you conclude they're for someone else.
Let me hear from you...
I'd like to hear any more definitions of pride you might have. What does pride mean to you?
What are some of the things you think one can do to keep from straying into pride?