"But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil." (James 4:16)
There is an old fable that says two geese were about to start southward on their annual autumn
migration, when they were entreated by a frog to take him with them. The geese expressed their
willingness to do so if a means of conveyance could be devised. The frog produced a long stalk of
grass, got the geese to take it by each end, while he clung to it by his mouth in the middle. In this
manner the three were making their journey when they were noticed by some men. The men
loudly expressed their admiration for the device and wondered who had been clever enough to
discover it. Whereupon, the vainglorious frog opened his mouth to say, "It was I," lost his hold,
fell to the earth, and was dashed to pieces.
"Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips." (Prov. 27:2)