You can be rich without being arrogant! There are many who are not respecters-of-persons. They do not look down their noses at other people because of their station in life and they genuinely try to help lift others up to the spiritual and natural state of blessedness that Christ wants each person to experience.
Yet, there are times when people will call you arrogant because they've mistaken it for godly confidence. We must certainly allow the Holy Spirit to illuminate areas of our life where we may be thinking or acting in an arrogant manner and make practical changes to be more Christ-like because greater natural stature (riches, power, position, fame, etc.) brings bigger demons that tempt you to put off Christ-likeness and believe that self-sufficiency advanced you to the stature you have.
One demon that attacks naturally rich people to a greater degree than the general populace is the spirit of arrogance (especially in the area of dealing interpersonally with others). This spirit tempts the unwary person to become haughty about himself and his accomplishments and leads him to think that he is better than everyone who has not attained a level of wealth set in his mind as the level necessary to be recognized by God and/or man as a prosperous achiever.
No doubt, people who are naturally poor can be arrogant as well. Their arrogance generally initiates from the idea that their poverty makes them more acceptable to God than other people because of their naturally low position. Thus, everyone must recognize the evil intentions of the spirit of arrogance by regularly reading the bible and daily fellowship with the LORD and the church via a local expression of His body in order to understand that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female.
Christ’s way is for you to recognize your lowly position in life no matter how tall you stand before men, yet recognize your high position in Him where you and others that are saved, no matter their natural station, are seated with Him in Heavenly places.
By all means, you should practically, according to God’s wisdom, do all you can to increase the blessings and rewards God gives you so that you can be a greater blessing to others. And, you should be an example to others in this endeavor in the same manner as the first two servants in the Parables of the Talents that traded the money entrusted to them and doubled it. They received the encouraging words “Well done my good and faithful servant. Now, enter into the joy of your Lord!”
Do not believe the lie that another person is less desirable to God than you are because of their earthly material wealth or lack thereof. As you prosper in the earth by managing money according to biblical principles, don't accept the spirit of arrogance in your life or else it will ultimately bring negative results into your life.
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Proverbs 16:18-20, Luke 12:15-34, James 2:1-9, Revelations 2:8-11, 3:14-22
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