IF YOU THINK YOU’RE STANDING,BE CAREFUL LEST YOU FALL

This is the 1986 world cup photo of Maradona, Pele and Platini. By that time, Then Maradona campaigned against drugs, Platini campaigned against corruption while Pele stood for the rights of the children.

Time passed by. Maradona became a drug addict.

Platini was banned from football administration for corruption. And Pele refused to accept his biological daughter Sandra Regina Arantes, who was born as the result of his affair with a housemaid (in 1964).

Arantes filed a lawsuit against Pele. She won the case when DNA tests results confirmed she was Pele’s Daughter. She was rejected by the said dad, even after the results showed the truth about her parenthood. Later, after the rejection, she wrote a book, “The Daughter the King Did Not Want”, that described her mother’s affair. This gives us all some 3 lessons to learn from:

1. Don’t be so naive and self-confident. You’re not exempt from falling or messing up. You could fall flat on your face as easily as anyone else. Forget about self-confidence; it’s useless. Cultivate God-confidence.

2)  These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come. So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!

Corinthians 10:11-12

3: Appearances can be deceptive. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, submit to him and he will make your path straight. Proverbs 3:5-6