Why does god oppose the proud

If I can fix all my problems then why do I need a savior and why do I need others? There in lies the problem. Pride also makes you delusional.

I also like to be right and the guy with all the answers. One more area is selfish motives. So often I do good things for others not because the love of Christ compels me to but so that I might impress some woman or in the vain attempt that someone might be my friend. Now that the problem has been diagnosed, what is the treatment.

The scripture is clear that humility is the remedy. So what does it mean to be humble. We need only think for a moment what faith is.

You have to put on your own clothes. God calls us to be servants, and no one dresses the servant! This is active, not passive.

We actually have to clothe ourselves. You have to go to the effort to select them and put them on. We need to practice it by serving others, genuinely caring about them, and respecting them and listening to them and putting them, not us, first. Humility is truly realizing we are unworthy—and yet God has called us, loved us, sent His Son to the cross for us, and empowered us to live a life of service.

True leaders are servants. We might consider it a compliment to be called a servant. Serve others from a humble heart, realizing it is an honor to serve, as Jesus did.

Nothing is more fulfilling than following His example. So do you want God to think highly of you? I certainly do. From the lofty perch of his own superiority, he uses them to look down upon others. From his self-made pedestal, he fancies he can see with greater clarity than his Creator. Later, Solomon lowers his gaze from the eyes to the heart. Instead of harboring thoughts of love to others, the proud man harbors judgment and bitterness.

Instead of expressing kindness and compassion, he expresses disparagement. He is convinced of his superiority in achievement, intellect, morality, or spirituality. He is self-obsessed. Pride is first an attitude of independence from God. It is synonymous in Scripture with scoffing, arrogance, foolishness, evil, and wickedness. It is directly opposed to the humble, God-fearing, meek, lowly, trusting, faith-filled disposition that is pleasing to God.

And no wonder. James quotes Proverbs This relates a simple, but powerful idea: God opposes the proud.

Our refusal to trust God to provide what we need, what He wants for us, and our insistence on getting what we want for ourselves is an act of pride. We are attempting to be the God of our own lives.

God will lovingly, jealously oppose us when we do so—but He will not reject us in Christ. Instead, He calls us to humble ourselves and receive more grace from Him. He calls us to repent of the sin of self-reliance and demanding what we want and yield to Him, receiving with gratitude all the good He chooses to gives us and all the seeming good He chooses to withhold.