“Because your heart is lifted up,
And you say, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of gods,
In the midst of the seas,’
Yet you are a man, and not a god,
Though you set your heart as the heart of a god Ezekiel 28:2 (NKJV)
And you say, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of gods,
In the midst of the seas,’
Yet you are a man, and not a god,
Though you set your heart as the heart of a god Ezekiel 28:2 (NKJV)
Some years ago, mind scientists carefully tabulated the number of times mentally ill people used words such as I, me, my and mine. these unfortunates used one of these words referring to self in every twelve words of conversation. the same scientists tabulated the speech of so-called normal people. this tabulation showed that one of these words referring to self was used in every thirty-six words. The mentally unbalanced referred to self three times more often than those who were normal. Could it be that much of the mental illness we see today on every hand is a direct result of insecurity brought on by self-will and self-seeking?
It is extremely important to understand that Satan's program of rebellion has suppressed or perverted the historical background of his own existence. To acknowledge that God was his Maker would naturally have ruined his revolt before it could have gotten started. Recklessly he made the defiant claim, "I am God." The prophet Ezekiel, in our text today, uses imagery that far transcends the prince of Tyre. He was specifically referring to none other than Lucifer. Imagine Satan claiming that he was God and that he sat in the seat of God! Such profane pride is jarring to the Christian mind!
The gorgeous apparel of Lucifer is described in verse 13 of Ezekiel 28, but note carefully the seven concluding words, "in the day that thou wast created." And those seven words of the Almighty are supreme proof that the Lord, not Satan, is God!
Everything Satan had before he fell was his only by gift and not through his own works. In short, Lucifer's existence was his by gift and gift alone. Satan's only claim to anything was through the loving, creative power of God. If this was true of Lucifer, how much more is it true of the human race. Let us talk less about self and more about our Savior. It is what He can do, not what I can do!
February 10
by: Bob Spangler
