Saturday 2 December 2006

God’s heart or our heart?

“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;” - Ezekiel 28v6

The prince of Tyrus in Ezekiel 28 was a real political ruler, but he us also a picture of Satan and that title is one of Satan’s titles. Of course Lucifer is the author and progenitor of sin. Here God details how he sinned and what the core of his sin was.

Two things stick out – 1) “You have lifter up your heart,” and 2) “You have set your heart as the heart of God.” Lucifer, the prince of Tyrus, thought that he knew as much as God did and that he could do things as well as God does.

Terrible sin we might say. But are we any better when we doubt God’s way in a situation or a trial? Are we any better when we think that we have it figured out and that our way would surely better and our solution more suited to the situation? When we doubt and question God in a situation our solution much be that which Habakkuk finally came to - “I will settle and wait on God.” Otherwise we are guilty of the same prideful thoughts that Lucifer was.

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