How does god oppose the proud

Psalm Verse Concepts. Daniel Verse Concepts. Luke Verse Concepts. Ezekiel Verse Concepts. Abasing People Humility. God Requite Them! Cursing The Ungodly rebuking. God, As Judge Judges. Zechariah Verse Concepts. Race Illegitimate Children. Salvation is the fellowship with the crucified Christ in the spirit of His cross. Salvation is union with and delight in, salvation is participation in, the humility of Jesus. Is it wonder that our faith is so feeble when pride still reigns so much, and we have scarce learned even to long or pray for humility as the most needful and blessed part of salvation?

I have a hard time being a dependent and confessing I am nothing and helpless. Yet when I read the scriptures, things begin to make sense.

I am to take on the role of the dependent. I have no control of anything. So I am to turn to the one person who truly cares for me and can fix my problems. God will only be strong when I am weak. He will not compete for His glory. Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is proud and abase him. Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.

Note: God says that He is right and just. He is acting from His very nature when He brings low the proud and treads down the wicked. Job knows that he himself has spoken in prideful ways. He therefore repents. By despising himself, he is acknowledging his pride:. I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes. Indeed, he did not consider himself prideful until God confronted him. 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. God is calling us back to the peaceful, faithful path of trusting Him.

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