Isaiah 14:12-14
"How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, you who have weakened the nations!
"But you said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit on the mount of assembly in the recesses of the north.
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.' "
I helped someone find this passage the other night and realized I hadn't thought about it in while. So, naturally, that got me thinking about it. One word comes to mind: yeah, that one. Pride.
Let's face it, pride is it; the big one. Pride says, "I know what I'm doing. I know better than you, God. I'm doing this for me, all the while telling everyone it's for You, when deep down I know better. I'll give the impression that You are behind this when actually I'm behind it. And I do this so well that I actually believe it myself."
How is that any different from what Satan did? Isn't it all blasphemy, just the same? Isn't that substituting ourselves for God? Yep. I'm afraid it is. God will give us warnings to try to wake us up to our rebellion. He gave me several. Take it from me, don't ignore the warnings.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
No Equal
Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
"To whom will you compare Me? Or who is My equal?" says the Holy One.
Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
Amen.
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
"To whom will you compare Me? Or who is My equal?" says the Holy One.
Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
Amen.
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