COBWEB IN A COWSHED
A cow was resting and ruminating in her cowshed. A mosquito appeared and
challenged the cow. "You have a feeling that you are stronger and larger
than I am. I will show you how powerful I am." He gave sharp bites on the
soft parts of the cow, evading every attempt of the cow to drive him away. The
cow warned him with a kind and considerate look, "Please remember that
pride goes before a fall."
The mosquito continued his attack, flying away from the wagging tail of the
cow. Suddenly he was caught and entrapped in a spider web. His wings got stuck
and he could not move. The spider sensed the fall of the prey and approached
fast to paralyze the mosquito and kill it. The mosquito was frightened. He cried
aloud, "Help me. I am caught in the web. Kindly forgive me. I am going to
be killed. Please help me!"
The cow was very kind and gentle. With a careful light wag of her tail, she
broke the web, released and saved the mosquito. The mosquito was ashamed of
himself for boasting before the cow. He admitted his mistake. He pleaded, "You
are definitely more powerful. Please forgive my ignorance and arrogance. Thank
you for saving me. I will never disturb you."
"The Lord hates everyone who
is arrogant; He will never let them escape punishment" {Proverbs 16: 5}. "Pride leads to
destruction, and arrogance to downfall" {Proverbs 16: 18}. "No one is respected unless he is humble; arrogant people are on
the way to ruin" {Proverbs 18:
12}.
"Happy are those who are humble; they will receive what God has
promised" {Matthew 5: 5}.
"For everyone who makes himself great will be humbled, and everyone who
humbles himself will be made great" {Luke 14: 11}.
Jesus taught us to pray,
"Forgive us the wrongs we have done, as we forgive the wrongs that others
have done to us" {Matthew 6:
12}. St. Paul advises, "Be kind and tender-hearted to one another, and
forgive one another, as God has forgiven you through Christ" {Ephesians 4: 32}.
D. L. Moody said that God has two thrones: one in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart. He wrote that Moses spent his first forty years thinking he was somebody. Then he spent forty years in the back side of the desert realizing that he was nobody. Finally he spent the last forty years of his life learning what God can do with a nobody!
Fred Smith said, "Humility is not denying the power you have. It is realizing that the power comes through you, not from you."
Humility is a strange quality. The moment one thinks he has it, he loses it!
D. L. Moody said that God has two thrones: one in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart. He wrote that Moses spent his first forty years thinking he was somebody. Then he spent forty years in the back side of the desert realizing that he was nobody. Finally he spent the last forty years of his life learning what God can do with a nobody!
Fred Smith said, "Humility is not denying the power you have. It is realizing that the power comes through you, not from you."
Humility is a strange quality. The moment one thinks he has it, he loses it!
© By: Dr. Babu Philip, Professor, Cochin University of
Science & Technology, Fine Arts Avenue, Kochi-682016, Kerala, India, Prof.
Mrs. Rajamma Babu, Former Professor, St. Dominic's College, Kanjirappally and
Leo. S. John, Maniparambil, Ooriyakunnath, Kunnumbhagom, Kanjirappally,
Kottayam-686507, Kerala, India.
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