PECK OF A CHICK
An arrogant chick was
searching for food. The chick was very smart, intelligent and quick-witted. But
he boasted about his brilliance and liked to walk alone. His mother warned him,
but he said that he could face any danger using his exceptionally excellent
intellect.
When
he walked alone along a bushy path, suddenly a cobra appeared before the chick
and opened
his mouth to devour him. He told
the snake, “Stop, you fool. Don’t you know that I am highly poisonous? If I
peck you, you will die on the spot. My venom is a thousand times stronger than
yours. Every part of my body is poisonous.”
The cobra thought for a moment. He had
not heard about a poisonous chick so far. But he was not ready to take a risk.
So he told the chick, “You must prove that you are poisonous. Then I will spare
you.”
A man was walking near their meeting place.
The chick told the snake, “Watch me peck that man. He will die and you can
see.” So saying, he gave a strong peck on the back of the man’s heel with its
sharp beak and hid behind a bush. The man turned around with a cry and saw the
fearsome cobra waving its wide hood. He got the fright of his life. His shock
was so intense that he fell down, fainted.
The chick victoriously jumped over his body
and shouted, “Get away, you fool. Otherwise I will kill you with a single
peck.” He pretended to chase the snake. The snake was frightened and left the
scene at top speed. The bold chick laughed merrily and praised his own
brilliance. He longed to tell everyone how he had tricked the snake.
A cunning fox saw the speeding snake and
asked why he was crawling at top speed. Without a pause, the cobra cried, “Run
for your life, a venomous chick is chasing me. Don’t come into his view. He may
kill you.” The snake fled at top speed. The fox was sure that the chick had
fooled the foolish snake. He ran towards the spot from where the snake had
emerged. Soon he met the chick moving boastfully. Before the chick could utter
a word, the fox finished him. Licking his lips after relishing the delicious
meal, he exclaimed, “What luck! What a tasty chick!”
"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}.
Fred
Smith said, "Humility is not denying the power you have. It is realizing
that the power comes through you, not from you." D. L. Moody remarked, “God
has two thrones – one in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart.”
A famous proverb in Malayalam may be translated as:
“Water flows to a
lower land;
Grace of God to a
lowly mind.”
Humility is a strange quality. The moment one thinks he has it, he loses it! Pride goes before a fall.
Humility is a strange quality. The moment one thinks he has it, he loses it! Pride goes before a fall.
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© By: Prof. Dr. Babu Philip,
Darsana Academy, Kottayam-686001, Kerala, India ( Former Professor, Cochin
University of Science & Technology, Fine Arts Avenue, Kochi-682016, Kerala,
India), Prof. Mrs. Rajamma Babu, Former Professor, St.
Dominic's College, Kanjirappally, Leo. S. John, St.
Antony's Public School, Anakkal, Kanjirappally and Neil John, Maniparambil, Ooriyakunnath, Kunnumbhagom, Kanjirappally,
Kottayam-686507, Kerala, India.
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