Arrogant

“May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me without cause; but I will meditate on your precepts.” (Psalm 119:78)

We are told in the book of Proverbs that pride goes before a fall. How often we see that to be true. When you take pride in what we accomplish, or what we own, or whatever, when we fail to accomplish or we lose what we had then what we had pride in is empty. It is like a scarecrow in a cucumber patch.

We may find arrogance in an associate troublesome to us but it is much worse in a Christian. Christians can be like the Pharisee who went down to the temple to pray and was thankful that he wasn’t like others. He was proud that God had made him righteous. He wasn’t even proud that he had made himself righteous but it is equally repulsive if we are proud of who we are even when we contribute that to God.