One Word At A Time: Ego
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 7:00AM MAD21 By Alan
It’s interesting to guest write on Ego. Of all the sins, of all the topics, Pride and Ego are the most malevolent, the most evil. Love is the greatest of the spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 13:13), but is the oppositely most powerful evil Hate? I don’t think so. I contend that it’s Ego.
It is no less than Ego that struck down the second most powerful being in the universe. Satan was a shining beautiful angel. The Second In Command in Heaven. He was all set for Eternity on the winning side, and he let one little idea get into his head. He could maybe get a little bit more ambitious. He could succeed on his own, without any help from the Big Guy. In fact, the Big Guy was in the way. Satan began to think “I will get more” and “I will become like God.”
Read what it says in Isaiah 14 (the emphasis are mine):
How you have fallen from heaven,
O morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!You said in your heart,
"I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
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