Why Some Great Men Fall. Part [7] 09/20/2025 (Evening thought)

Psalms 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. 6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. 7 But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.

Again, if suddenly, God promotes you to a high position of trust, where you find yourself on top of the world as it were, be very careful to walk humbly with God, lest the old serpent fills your head with pride, and you think that you don’t need God’s counsel and guidance anymore. These are just some of the reasons why great men fell in times past, and if the lessons of bygone years do not sink deep into our consciousness, great men, and women in our day are sure to fall also.

The servant of The Lord puts us on our guard…. [Special Testimonies 27, 1902 par 6] Christ entered upon His mission of mercy, and from the manger to the cross was beset by the enemy. Satan contested every inch of ground, exerting his utmost power to overcome Him. Like a tempest temptation after temptation beat upon Him. But the more mercilessly they fell, the more firmly did the Son of God cling to the hand of His Father, and press on in the blood-stained path.

After Christ’s transfiguration on the mountaintop, where Peter, James, and John saw Moses, and Elijah speaking with Jesus in His glorified form, devils were waiting in the valley to cause mayhem. This snare the Christian must be very wary of, and it should drive persons to prayer, even more than before the blessing came. Devils become extremely irritated and exasperated when God’s kingdom on earth is making strides and advancing.

Mark 9:2 And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them. 3 And his raiment became shining, exceedingly white as snow; as no fuller on earth can white them.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!

Why Some Great Men Fall. Part [6] 09/19/2025 (Morning thought)

2nd Samuel 12:8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

It is very often the case that when persons are down and out in the valley of despair, they would turn to God, and humbly pray for guidance and direction, but if and when The Lord exalts them to prominent positions, sometimes they may no longer feel their need of Him. This pattern of initial humility, and pride later on, occurs so often in the Scripture that it warrants the most careful attention so that we may know how to avoid some of the pitfalls that occur after God blesses persons or nations.

It is one of the main reasons why great men fall. Before we proceed, let it be said that right after a day of great blessing, there come temptations to overthrow the very thing God sought to accomplish. As a general rule of thumb, your mountaintop experiences would be followed with temptations in the valley, where your arch-enemy is waiting in the wings to destroy and annoy. The Bible tells us that we should never be ignorant of his devices.

And therefore, whenever God does something great for you, whenever God blesses you really good, try by His grace to be humble, lest satan succeeds in turning your blessing into a curse. For instance, if out of the blue, God blesses you with a large sum of money, be very careful to turn again to Him and pray for heavenly wisdom, and discretion to manage it prudently, lest, before you know it, the dinero makes itself wings and flies away towards heaven like a bird and you find yourself back to square one, or even worse.

2nd Samuel 12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!