Isaiah 66:1-2 This is what the Lord says “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?” declares the Lord. “These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit and who trembles at my word.
In this verse of Scripture, God
led Isaiah to write the words that place all things in their proper perspective.
As humans, our ability to grasp the beauty of God’s Word is limited to our
surrender to the truth that God’s throne is in heaven and the earth is under
His complete and total control. Undeniably, the earth is His footstool.
The Bible obviously shows that
our profound prosperity is subject to recognizing, with our lives, our
dependence upon the uncovered will of God, which is His Word. Pride comes about
because of claiming to oneself something for which we think we deserve and wouldn't
actually have aside from God's kind-heartedness.
Presently what do we have that
we didn't get on our own? Did we make ourselves? Did we make the extraordinary
objective in life to be in the Kingdom of God and to be naturally introduced to
His Family? Did we uncover God to ourselves? Did we sacrifice our lives on the Cross
of Calvary for the absolution of our wrongdoings? Did the endowment of the Holy
Spirit come to us through our own design? Did we lead ourselves to the saving
grace of Christ Jesus? Who enabled us to place our faith and trust in the one
true God and in His Son, Christ Jesus?
It is fascinating when we meditate on Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Satan comes
to them and tells them, "You will be as God." What went into Adam and
Eve at that point? The pride of life. The outcome? They dismissed God’s Word to
them. They rejected His Word, and sin came into the world. Pride quietly hoists human
beings to an equal level as God, which brings about humanity rejecting the very
gifts God would give us, leading to our salvation.
Thus,
deliberately or subliminally, the pride in us is saying that we definitely
know better. Consequently, in our weak humanity, we mistakenly believe that our
salvation is something owed to us by God. Satan will blind our eyes to God’s
grace and mercy and make us believe that we must work for our salvation. As
humans, we have a limitation in understanding God's Word. Therefore, we will
not be able to comprehend the message of salvation by grace through thru faith
God has for us until we ultimately surrender our hearts, minds, bodies, and
souls to Him.
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