My Arrogance

  Hello again.  
I'm here, once more, because I believe God is teaching me a lesson.  I'm learning that I have  HUGE problem with arrogance.
I'm fairly talented, and very often, I want others to take notice and I even want the praise.  I want the jobs that come with the talents and I want to get attention.  And I wonder why I'm not there yet.  After all, I'm good at the things I can do. Why can't I have the opportunity to do them?  Why don't I have the room to follow them?  Don't I deserve that?
I feel like I've been slapped down with a resounding "no".  I don't.  Talents and abilities are gifts as well as the attention that comes with them.  Not rights or obligation.  They are given, by God, and are given for a reason.
1 Peter 4:10 says "As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: ¹¹ whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen."and Romans 12 says "³ For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. ⁴ For as in one body we have many members,^[e] and the members do not all have the same function, ⁵ so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ⁶ Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; ⁷ if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; ⁸ the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads,^[f] with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness."  From these two passages, I get the impression that our gifts, talents, abilities are not given to us to glorify ourselves, but to bring glory to God and to help our brothers and sisters.  Not just brothers and sisters in the church sense, but brothers and sisters in the human sense.  About this particular subject, I'm being arrogant and selfish and I need to fix that.