Love Is Not Proud

love is not proud

A prideful person is recognizable by their behavior.  Pride is manifested in many ways.  A prideful person convinces themselves that they are always right.  This makes it very difficult for them to admit when they are wrong, it makes it difficult for them to admit that they sin, and it makes it very difficult for them to apologize.

 A prideful person believes they are self-sufficient so they do not depend on God, their spouse, or anyone else.  They have a “know-it-all” attitude and are conceited, exaggerating their importance by esteeming themselves above others.  

They criticize others, yet when criticized they become very defensive.

love is not proud

 They have a difficult time submitting to others and they are stubborn!

A prideful person may only struggle with one of those things or all of them, the critical thing is to understand how to define pride.  Then we need to evaluate ourselves and see if we have pride in our hearts.

This proud quest for praise may be religious. It was the religious leader who praised himself in prayer and was condemned. The poor man who humbled himself was justified .Thus Jesus said, "For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted"

This is a self-knowledge issue. As it has been put, self-knowledge is like a window to correct knowledge of the world. If self-knowledge is blocked then a true knowledge of the world is blocked. Thus pride is a mindset in which we do not see ourselves in proper perspective: we have too elevated of a view of self.

love is not proud

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

When you are proud, you are feeling pride, or satisfaction with yourself. The word proud can also mean too much of this feeling––sometimes saying someone is proud is the same as saying they're arrogant. It's also possible to feel proud of someone else.

Love is not rude. Do you intuitively connect rudeness with pride? Rudeness is a wrong view of oneself coming out in contexts where superiors are present. By superiors I simply refer to the fact that we are all under God ordained human authority structures. It begins with the relationship we have to our mothers and fathers. We are commanded to honor them.The principle carries over to all authority structures that God has ordained for life on this earth. There may be some gray areas here as to how we carry out the fifth commandment in its true spirit and intent. But it still has a vital relevance that should be sought after diligently.