A week from now Manny Pacquiao will be facing Joshua Clottey and their match will be held at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas and viewed over HBO PPV and live stream. Millions of Filipinos and fans will be tuning in to the fight for the world welterweight championship.
“Before destruction the heart of man is haughty.”
Proverbs 18:12
It is an old and common saying, that “coming events cast their shadows before them;” the wise man teaches us that a haughty heart is the prophetic prelude of evil. Pride is as safely the sign of destruction as the change of mercury in the weather-glass is the sign of rain; and far more infallibly so than that. When men have ridden the high horse, destruction has always overtaken them. Let David’s aching heart show that there is an eclipse of a man’s glory when he dotes upon his own greatness. 2 Sam. 24:10. See Nebuchadnezzar, the mighty builder of Babylon, creeping on the earth, devouring grass like oxen, until his nails had grown like bird’s claws, and his hair like eagle’s feathers. Dan. 4:33. Pride made the boaster a beast, as once before it made an angel a devil. God hates high looks, and never fails to bring them down., All the arrows of God are aimed at proud hearts. O Christian, is thine heart haughty this evening? For pride can get into the Christian’s heart as well as into the sinner’s; it can delude him into dreaming that he is “rich and increased in goods, and hath need of nothing.” Art thou glorying in thy graces or thy talents? Art thou proud of thyself, that thou hast had holy frames and sweet experiences? Mark thee, reader, there is a destruction coming to thee also. Thy flaunting poppies of self-conceit will be pulled up by the roots, thy mushroom graces will wither in the burning heat, and thy self-sufficiency shall become as straw for the dunghill. If we forget to live at the foot of the cross in deepest lowliness of spirit, God will not forget to make us smart under His rod. A destruction will come to thee, O unduly exalted believer, the destruction of thy joys and of thy comforts, though there can be no destruction of thy soul. Wherefore, “He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.”
Worrying is what many people like you and me normally do when we do not get what is expected. We worry about bills to pay, finding resolution to problems we face and many other things.
It is less than two months before “Level Up”, Camp Kabataan’s summer youth camp for 2010, kicks off. We are now in the process of rounding up sponsors and offering them proper promotional exposure.
Synergy, the youth leaders’ 2009 event which was organized and attended by different churches that also fellowship and work together during our summer camps, had success as it was able to gather 97 participants. It was also our first attempt at live streaming over the internet through Ustream.
Have you been doing some spiritual exercises lately? Don’t get stuck in a rut and do not allow atrophy to set in on your spiritual muscles .
“Thou hast made summer and winter.”
Psalm 74:17
My soul begin this wintry month with thy God. The cold snows and the piercing winds all remind thee that He keeps His covenant with day and night, and tend to assure thee that He will also keep that glorious covenant which He has made with thee in the person of Christ Jesus. He who is true to His Word in the revolutions of the seasons of this poor sin-polluted world, will not prove unfaithful in His dealings with His own well-beloved Son.
