1. Proud people focus on the failures of others and can readily point out hose faults.
-Broken people are more conscious of their own spiritual need than of anyone else's
2. Proud people have a critical, fault-finding spirit. They look at everyone else's faults with a microscope but view their own with a telescope.
-Broken people are compassionate- they have the kind of love that overlooks a multitude of sins; they can forgive much because they know how much they have been forgiven.
3. Proud people are especially prone to criticize those in positions of authority- their pastor, their boss, their parents- and they talk to others about the faults they see.
-Broken people encourage and lift up those that God has placed in positions of authority, and they talk to God in prayer, rather than gossiping about the faults they see in others.
4. Proud people are self righteous; they think highly of themselves and look down on others.
-Broken people think the best of others; they esteem others as better than themselves.
5. Proud people have to prove that they are right-they have to get the last word.
-Broken people have a dependent spirit; they recognize their need for God and for others.
6. Proud people are self-protective of their time, their rights, and their reputation.
-Broken people are are self-denying and self-sacrificing.
7. Proud people desire to be known as a success.
-Broken people are motivated to be faithful and to make others successful.
8. Proud people crave self-advancement.
-Broken people desire to promote others
9. Proud people are elated by praise and deflated by criticism.
-Broken people know that any praise of their accomplishments belongs to the Lord and that criticism can help them grow into spiritual maturity.
10. Proud people feel confident in how much they know.
-Broken people are humbled by how much they have to learn.
11. Proud people are self-conscious; they worry about what others think of them.
-Broken people are not preoccupied with what others think of them.
12. Proud people are driven to protect their image and reputation.
-Broken people are concerned with being real; they care less about what others think than about what God knows- they are willing to die to their own reputation.
13. Proud people keep others at arm's length.
-Broken people are willing to take the risks of getting close to others and loving intimately.
14. Proud people are quick to blame others.
-Broken people accept personal responsibility and can acknowledge where they were wrong in a situation.
15. Proud people wait for another to come and ask forgiveness when there is a misunderstanding or a breach in a relationship.
-Broken people take the initiative to be reconciled, no matter how wrong the other party may have been.
16. Proud people want to be sure that no one finds out when they have sinned; their instinct is to cover up or justify.
-Broken people aren't overly concerned with who knows or who finds out about their sin- they are willing to be exposed because they have nothing to lose.
17. Proud people don't think they need personal growth and renewal, but they are sure everyone else does.
-Broken people continually sense their need for a fresh encounter with God and for a fresh filling of His Holy Spirit.
I bolded all the points that I have been prideful in (basically all of them). This just made me thankful, once again, at how God has broken me down and changed my prideful, hard heart. I'll take brokenness over pride any day.
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