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JOTS FROM OLD JAKE VICTORY DANCE VICTORY DANCE: In this our modern world we teach our children to do a victory dance every time they have siezed the advantage over an opposing team or person. We call that, �being competitive.� This is ok is guess, because you need to teach the child to be competitive so that they will be able to face the world of work. They need the tenacity to be successful business or professional persons. My thoughts go beyond the simple victory dance to where and at what time does that victory dance become �PRIDE?� Almost every athletic organization I know of has rules on just how far the Victory Dance can go. In the 24th chapter of Proverb, the wise author tells us in the 17th verse that rejoicing when the opponent fails that it is not good. The Lord who made it possible for you to win may see your victory dance as pride and put an end to your winning streak. (Paraphrased of course) It is my belief that Pride is one of the worst sins we commit. Although all sins need to be redeemed by the Blood of Jesus, I think that Pride is the one that leads to almost all of the others. Generally when you read in the Bible of the things that God hates, some form of Pride is the first one on the list. Proverbs 18 tells us that Pride comes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. SIDEBAR: That song is: �Send us the rain Lord
Proverbs 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. 17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: 18 Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. 19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked; 20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. 21 My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change Psalms 10:2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Proverbs 11:2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: Proverbs 13:10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom. Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
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