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Proud people focus on the failures of others.
\nBroken people are overwhelmed with a sense of their own spiritual need.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people have a critical, fault-finding spirit; they look at everyone else\u2019s faults with a microscope but their own with a telescope.
\nBroken people are compassionate; they can forgive much because they know how much they have been forgiven.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people are self-righteous; they look down on others.
\nBroken people esteem all others better than themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people have an independent, self-sufficient spirit.
\nBroken people have a dependent spirit; they recognize their need for others.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people have to prove that they are right.
\nBroken people are willing to yield the right to be right.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people claim rights; they have a demanding spirit.
\nBroken people yield their rights; they have a meek spirit.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people are self-protective of their time, their rights, and their reputation.
\nBroken people are self-denying.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people desire to be served.
\nBroken people are motivated to serve others.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people desire to be a success.
\nBroken people are motivated to be faithful and to make others a success.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people desire self-advancement.
\nBroken people desire to promote others.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people have a drive to be recognized and appreciated.
\nBroken people have a sense of their own unworthiness; they are thrilled that God would use them at all.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people are wounded when others are promoted and they are overlooked.
\nBroken people are eager for others to get the credit; they rejoice when others are lifted up.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people have a subconscious feeling, \u201cThis ministry\/church is privileged to have me and my gifts\u201d; they think of what they can do for God.
\nBroken people\u2019s heart attitude is, \u201cI don\u2019t deserve to have a part in any ministry\u201d; they know that they have nothing to offer God except the life of Jesus flowing through their broken lives.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people feel confident in how much they know.
\nBroken people are humbled by how very much they have to learn.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people are self-conscious.
\nBroken people are not concerned with self at all.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people keep others at arms\u2019 length.
\nBroken people are willing to risk getting close to others and to take risks of loving intimately.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people are quick to blame others.
\nBroken people accept personal responsibility and can see where they are wrong in a situation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people are unapproachable or defensive when criticized.
\nBroken people receive criticism with a humble, open spirit.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people are concerned with being respectable, with what others think; they work to protect their own image and reputation.
\nBroken people are concerned with being real; what matters to them is not what others think but what God knows; they are willing to die to their own reputation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people find it difficult to share their spiritual need with others.
\nBroken people are willing to be open and transparent with others as God directs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people want to be sure that no one finds out when they have sinned; their instinct is to cover up.
\nBroken people, once broken, don\u2019t care who knows or who finds out; they are willing to be exposed because they have nothing to lose.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people have a hard time saying, \u201cI was wrong; will you please forgive me?\u201d
\nBroken people are quick to admit failure and to seek forgiveness when necessary.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people tend to deal in generalities when confessing sin.
\nBroken people are able to acknowledge specifics when confessing their sin.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people are concerned about the consequences of their sin.
\nBroken people are grieved over the cause, the root of their sin.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people are remorseful over their sin, sorry that they got found out or caught.
\nBroken people are truly, genuinely repentant over their sin, evidenced in the fact that they forsake that sin.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people wait for the other to come and ask forgiveness when there is a misunderstanding or conflict in a relationship.
\nBroken people take the initiative to be reconciled when there is misunderstanding or conflict in relationships; they race to the cross; they see if they can get there first, no matter how wrong the other may have been.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people compare themselves with others and feel worthy of honor.
\nBroken people compare themselves to the holiness of God and feel a desperate need for His mercy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people are blind to their true heart condition.
\nBroken people walk in the light.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people don\u2019t think they have anything to repent of.
\nBroken people realize they have need of a continual heart attitude of repentance.<\/em><\/p>\n

Proud people don\u2019t think they need revival, but they are sure that everyone else does.
\nBroken people continually sense their need for a fresh encounter with God and for a fresh filling of His Holy Spirit.<\/em><\/p>\n

Be sure to read Nancy’s article, “Brokenness: The Heart God Revives.”<\/a><\/p>\n

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Copyright \u00a9 2001 Revive Our Hearts. Used with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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