It being Sunday, I think a parable would be quite in order. The following story was told to me by a well-known Afrikaans churchman.
The congregation had been invited to a attend a Bible quiz between two teams consisting of the elders of the congregation and Oom Danie was very surprised (so he said!) that he had not been chosen to partake in the quiz, so he visited the parson and aired his misgivings. He reminded the parson that he had been a serving member of the church council for very many years and had always taken part in all the discussions of the council and that he thought that omitting a prominent member of the council could be regarded as a slap in the face. So, to keep the peace, it was decided to increase the quiz teams by two more members.
It all went very well until the parson, acting as quiz master, asked Oom Danie a question:
Parson: "Oom, What is the distance between Dan and Beersheba?"
Oom Danie: "Parson, what do you mean by this question?"
Parson: "Oom, as you know, Dan was in the very north of Israel and Beersheba was more or less the most southern town in Israel. An answer to the nearest 50 kilometers would be acceptable."
Oom Danie: "Parson, do you want to tell me the Dan and Beersheba were places, I always thought they were man and wife, just like Sodom and Gomorrah!"
The moral of the story is: Do not think too much of yourself!
Oupa
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