Self-admirers
and self-flatterers are really self-deceivers. Many think the proud are
happy people, let me tell you they are not! This is a mistaken
thought. God resist the proud, who display pomp and make a show; Many poor
ones feel far less uneasiness than the rich, with all their fancied advantages
around them. The man who doesn't know God is poor, though he is rich, because
he is lacking of that which alone is true riches. As I read through
the book of Esther I had to laugh as I got to Chapters 5 and 6; what a story.
