Ever played a choose up game and you were 1st one picked? Ezekiel 28:14-15

Good morning all. God is good all the time, all the time God is good.  TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!  Jesu Jevu!

   Have you ever played in a choose up game and were the first one picked?  If you were, how did it make you feel?  Also, if you were the last one picked - how did that make you feel?

   If first picked we tend to feel really good, and some pride will seep in.  Some will know that they are good enough that they KNOW THEY WILL BE PICKED!  This is when pride starts to edge it ugly head in your life.  Look at this verse talking about Lucifer:

   Ezekiel 28: 14 You were anointed as a guardian cherub,

    for so I ordained you.
You were on the holy mount of God;
    you walked among the fiery stones.
15 You were blameless in your ways    from the day you were created
    till wickedness was found in you.

First, anointed as a guardian cherub - meaning he was associated with God's holiness and presence. Cherubs cover or guard the throne of God. Now, the throne he is set to guard and protect becomes his own desire.  He wants the throne for himself.

  God created all the angels of heaven and ordained or chose Lucifer to be in the position he had.  Walking among the fiery stones seems to represent the gems or stones as in the breast plate of the high priest, representing the twelve tribes.

  Looking at v. 15 - God created a perfect angel, Lucifer, blameless in his ways and all the time he was with God he was blameless, perfect...----UNTIL---!

UNTIL WHAT?  Wickedness was found in him.  In Ezekiel this all is in speaking to the king of Tyre and also in reference to the once Lucifer, now know as satan or the devil.  As the king, pride came in where he thought he was all that and a bag of chips and could do all - including protect his people through his own power - leaving God completely out of the equation.  When we begin to believe that we are IT; a fall is soon coming.  We can do all things -- what?   THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME!  Without God we are a mass of flesh that gains our glory on earth.  With God we have eternal life.

   When pride comes into play, our wisdom becomes tainted and remember:  pride goeth before a fall!!  Hope all this makes sense to you. Feedback welcome. Love you all.

Soli Deo Gloria

Johnny