Ezekiel 28

Ezekiel 28 brings a couple of key lessons to light.  The first is the impact of beginning to think more highly of ourselves than we ought.  It grabs us and our “heart is proud” and soon we believe “I’m a god”.  Probably not in a literal sense, at least not most of us.  But we treat ourselves like a god.  We believe the world revolves around us and that we can do whatever we want whenever we want it.  I love what scripture says “you’re not even close to being a god”.  That about sums it up folks.  We are pathetic mere specs in comparison to the Creator of the universe.  We are nothing when held up against our God.  Yet we insist that life is about us – we selfishly look at ourselves as the center.  We get a glimpse at some of the problem: “made a lot of money. But the money has gone to your head”. It goes on to say “you had everything going for you” and that is so true for us as Christ followers, yet we want to stray away from God and put self on the throne.  We turn to the sin of self and then God has to respond.  He says “So I set a fire around and within you”.  We will battle on the inside and outside when we get our priorities messed up.  God will be God.  We can never have that place.  We need to learn that fast.