Rom. 12:3
“For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.“
I believe what Paul could be implying is we need to know who we are in Christ by faith through revelation and sometimes we have a tendency to ‘put law’ on ourselves in ignorance, arrogance, or by the flesh and we suffer unnecessarily for it. We suffer because it is not truth we are basing our thoughts on. Setting my mind on facts will get me as far as the facts reach.
Again in Rom. 12:16.
“Be not wise in your own conceits.”
According to His grace and faith in us, we should not allow self to have an excessively high opinion of itself. Godly confidence yes, conceitedness, no. In doing so, there is a potential to set yourself up to compare yourself because your thought basis is not founded on revelation and truth rooted in the Word.
If I know who I am in Christ then I won’t think more highly of myself than I ought. My identity is found in Him. In doing so, conceitedness, arrogance, and pride are quenched. These are not truth.
John 1:5
“And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
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