Psychology is just study of souls, mindset and behaviour of humans. It doesn't seek to glorify anybody. Humans are all weak and sinful in various ways. The Bible is a very human book with human characters in it and their relationship with God. The things people do in the Bible are often terrible things. It really shows the worst of us! But it also shows how we can be redeemed, not for ourselves but by having faith which is often goes unseen.
The whole humble brag thing maybe is the faith vs works thing I will show you my faith by my works, faith without works is dead and there's always a big debate about that!! Though we are told to work out our salvation!
I'm supposing that you are not meant to testify about yourself - what others say of your good works is important. Then they will see your faith by how you behave and what others say about you.. (good things I hope) and see God working in you...
It's a pride thing really. Boasting about yourself. This thing is not just in America, schools here have adopted it. Achievement, success, respect that's what schools now encourage. Cities are told to have pride in themselves, sports teams are told to have it, there are parades about it...award ceremonies are all about it...In NZ, we are constantly told about our 'performance' compared to other nations and GDP and other things about being No 1, listing all your accomplishments on your CV (reason why I hate talking about myself to others, it just seems absurd to say I won this and that to prove how good I am) parents often talk about their children this way to other parents (my daughter did this or that, my son came top in ... all my children are married see how good a parent I am!)
When parents say to their children 'I'm proud of you' they are admitting their own pride right? Rather than going 'good on you' or 'good for you' it's the child making the parent proud.
Jesus didn't have to do anything to make his parents proud. They loved and accepted him as his son before he even really did anything spectacular. Even his Father said this in earshot of everyone when Jesus stepped into the Jordan river to be baptised that he was his beloved son in whom he was well pleased...because he was actually symbolically washing away his sins! Note he didn't say this after Jesus had fed 5000 people...or got married, or won a prize..
Also Jesus often deflected any notions that he himself was good. He always would say 'why do you call me good' 'it is my Father who is good'.
Anyway I had not thought christians ever do it but they might name drop Jesus a bit...
The whole humble brag thing maybe is the faith vs works thing I will show you my faith by my works, faith without works is dead and there's always a big debate about that!! Though we are told to work out our salvation!
I'm supposing that you are not meant to testify about yourself - what others say of your good works is important. Then they will see your faith by how you behave and what others say about you.. (good things I hope) and see God working in you...
It's a pride thing really. Boasting about yourself. This thing is not just in America, schools here have adopted it. Achievement, success, respect that's what schools now encourage. Cities are told to have pride in themselves, sports teams are told to have it, there are parades about it...award ceremonies are all about it...In NZ, we are constantly told about our 'performance' compared to other nations and GDP and other things about being No 1, listing all your accomplishments on your CV (reason why I hate talking about myself to others, it just seems absurd to say I won this and that to prove how good I am) parents often talk about their children this way to other parents (my daughter did this or that, my son came top in ... all my children are married see how good a parent I am!)
When parents say to their children 'I'm proud of you' they are admitting their own pride right? Rather than going 'good on you' or 'good for you' it's the child making the parent proud.
Jesus didn't have to do anything to make his parents proud. They loved and accepted him as his son before he even really did anything spectacular. Even his Father said this in earshot of everyone when Jesus stepped into the Jordan river to be baptised that he was his beloved son in whom he was well pleased...because he was actually symbolically washing away his sins! Note he didn't say this after Jesus had fed 5000 people...or got married, or won a prize..
Also Jesus often deflected any notions that he himself was good. He always would say 'why do you call me good' 'it is my Father who is good'.
Anyway I had not thought christians ever do it but they might name drop Jesus a bit...