Humility gets God's attention.

Proverbs 8:13, “I hate pride and arrogance.”

Proverbs 16:5, “The Lord detests all the proud of heart.”

1 Peter 5:5, “God opposes the proud.”

"Every time we look at the cross, Christ seems to be saying to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross. All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousness, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size." -John Stott