Pride Goes Before A Fall

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.

"So Haman went out that day joyful and with a glad heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, and that he did not stand or tremble before him, he was filled with indignation against Mordecai.  Nevertheless Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and called for his friends and his wife Zeresh.  Then Haman told them of his great riches, the multitude of his children, everything in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and servants of the king.

What does the word of the Lord tell us about braggers? Pride goes before a fall; so he is so angry brother Mordecai didn't stand or tremble before him, and rightly so my brother, who does he think he is! I can think of a lot of folks in the church of the living God who thinks that should be your response whenever they are around, but thank God for the Mordecai's who will only stand and tremble before God and God alone.

Do not be misled: "Bad Company corrupts good character. However this is not relevant to Haman he was rotten from the start. This is for those of us who love to take advice from folks who have no respect for God or his words.

“Moreover Haman said, “Besides, Queen Esther invited no one but me to come in with the king to the banquet that she prepared; and tomorrow I am again invited by her, along with the king. Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

"Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go merrily with the king to the banquet.”

"And the thing pleased Haman; so he had the gallows made."

“Whosoever digs a pit shall fall in it! Pity Haman never heard this phrase before; it would have saved him a whole lot of embarrassment even his life.