Pride Goes Before a Fall. Part [6] 04/08/2026 (Morning thought)

Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

[Christ’s Object Lessons pp 349] God desires that His workers in every line shall look to Him as the Giver of all they possess. All right inventions, and improvements have their source in Him who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working. The skillful touch of the physician’s hand, his power over nerve and muscle, his knowledge of the delicate organism of the body, is the wisdom of divine power, to be used in behalf of the suffering.

The skill with which the carpenter uses the hammer, the strength with which the blacksmith makes the anvil ring, comes from God. He has entrusted men with talents, and He expects them to look to Him for counsel. Divine and human agencies are to combine in temporal as well as in spiritual achievements. They are to be united in all human pursuits, in mechanical and agricultural labor, in mercantile, and in scientific enterprises.

 There must be cooperation in everything embraced in Christian activity. Then again, you have the rise, and fall of king David. While going through his valley experiences, being hunted by king Saul night and day, he depended on God for everything. He would pray and ask for God’s guidance before doing anything, and before making any move, and as such, The Lord was always there with him.

2nd Samuel 12:9 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.

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

Pride Goes Before a Fall. Part [5] 04/08/2026 (Evening thought)

Daniel 4:29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 30 The king spoke and said is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and the honor of my majesty?

To deliberately harbor opinions, and perspectives in opposition to God’s revealed will is a manifestation of pride, and to cling to doctrinal, theological, even philosophical concepts that are contrary to the word of God, is pride being demonstrated in real time. There are several examples given in the Bible, so we may chart straight paths for our feet, especially at a time when personal and national pride is definitely on the rise.

Beware, because pride goes before a fall and a haughty spirit comes before destruction. It was pride that caused Nebuchadnezzar to eat a ton of salad, for even though he was forewarned by God through Daniel, against taking glory to himself for his accomplishments, he didn’t learn the critical, important lesson that everything man accomplishes which is good, is done through the grace and power of God.

Daniel 4:31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. 32 And they shall drive thee from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make you to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most-High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will.

Daniel 4:33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

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