Proverbs 11:2
When pride cometh, then cometh shame:
But with the lowly is wisdom.
The unteachable nature of the proud makes this course of events inevitable. Daily wisdom cries at him but in his stubborn independence the proud replicates his yester-mistakes. They say that a wise man learns from his own mistakes, but that the wiser man learns from the mistakes of others. Yet, the proud is like one who cannot receive counsel from another who has already been down that road. He is unteachable, so instruction doesn’t reach his heart.
When pride cometh, then cometh shame:
But with the lowly is wisdom.
The unteachable nature of the proud makes this course of events inevitable. Daily wisdom cries at him but in his stubborn independence the proud replicates his yester-mistakes. They say that a wise man learns from his own mistakes, but that the wiser man learns from the mistakes of others. Yet, the proud is like one who cannot receive counsel from another who has already been down that road. He is unteachable, so instruction doesn’t reach his heart.
As the poet said, his head is bloody, but unbowed.
This world incessantly looks for glory and fame. It turns mercilessly in search of pride’s new victim. Haven’t they learned yet? Where is the glory of the mighty? Where is the pride of great empires? Today they cry ‘hosanna’, but three days later they crucify you. The wings of glory and fame are fickle; they are made of wax; they fall as quickly as they rise.
In its race towards humanistic perfection, the world will eventually attain to a sort of peace. A proud godless super-leader will eventually arise and create order out of our present economic and political chaos. The ensuing seeming world harmony will even deceive believers in God. But in its humanistic climax, tension within its own system will consume and bring it to its knees. It is not an out of space external power that will conquer it. The only ‘aliens’ we have to fear is the lethal stench of our own pride. Like the proverbial skunk, the world will stink itself to death. Only the power of God through the return of His Son Jesus-Christ on earth will prevent its total shameless annihilation.
In that day, the fragrance of God will fill the earth. the wise Son of Solomon; the One who was born and who died in the meanest of conditions; the One who conquered entering the capital of the world on a donkey; the One who gave more than He took; the One who did not look to save His own life but took the sin of our shameful pride upon his meek shoulders; the One who despised the world and its dainties; this wise One, God will raise to honor and glory to teach us how we should live.
This world incessantly looks for glory and fame. It turns mercilessly in search of pride’s new victim. Haven’t they learned yet? Where is the glory of the mighty? Where is the pride of great empires? Today they cry ‘hosanna’, but three days later they crucify you. The wings of glory and fame are fickle; they are made of wax; they fall as quickly as they rise.
In its race towards humanistic perfection, the world will eventually attain to a sort of peace. A proud godless super-leader will eventually arise and create order out of our present economic and political chaos. The ensuing seeming world harmony will even deceive believers in God. But in its humanistic climax, tension within its own system will consume and bring it to its knees. It is not an out of space external power that will conquer it. The only ‘aliens’ we have to fear is the lethal stench of our own pride. Like the proverbial skunk, the world will stink itself to death. Only the power of God through the return of His Son Jesus-Christ on earth will prevent its total shameless annihilation.
In that day, the fragrance of God will fill the earth. the wise Son of Solomon; the One who was born and who died in the meanest of conditions; the One who conquered entering the capital of the world on a donkey; the One who gave more than He took; the One who did not look to save His own life but took the sin of our shameful pride upon his meek shoulders; the One who despised the world and its dainties; this wise One, God will raise to honor and glory to teach us how we should live.
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