Are you ready for the boons of the Creator? Likely you are looking on this querying as daft. Nevertheless, did you already mull over what made Ha-Satan (that was hidden in the person of the Tyre’s king) to fall in the faith?
And how about what took place in Jerusalem?
What did it lead Jerusalem to this piteous state?
Something similar came about Uzziah:
In all this cases, we have diacritic proofs of the astringent warning of Proverbs:
This is so stringent that… look at what was necessary Paul to undergo for the sake of the revelations of Christ:
So, when Jesus denies you something, don’t utter diatribes against the Creator! Instead, be grateful! Certainly He is clearing away from your life a heavier yoke than you can endure or carry on.
Have a wondrous day in Christ.
- “*With your wisdom and with your understanding* you have made riches for yourselves, and have worked gold and silver into your treasuries. *By your great wisdom* and by your trade you have multiplied your riches, and *your heart is lifted up because of your riches*.” (Ezek 28.4,5);
- “behold, therefore I will bring awesome strangers of the nations. And they shall draw their swords *against the beauty of your wisdom*, and they shall defile your brightness.” (Ezek 28.7);
- “*By the multitude of your goods* they have filled your midst with violence, and you have sinned. So I cast you profaned from the height of God, and I destroy you, O covering cherub, from among the stones of fire. *Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty*; you have spoiled your wisdom because of your brightness. I will cast you to the ground; I will put you before kings, that they may behold you.” (Ezekiel 28.16,17).
And how about what took place in Jerusalem?
- “How alone sits the city that *was full of people*! She has become like a widow, *once great among the nations, a noblewoman among the nations*, but now has become a tribute-payer.” (Lamentations 1.1).
What did it lead Jerusalem to this piteous state?
- “And your name went out among the nations, because of your beauty; *for it was perfect in My beauty, which I had put on you*, says the Lord Jehovah. *But you trusted in your beauty*, and played the harlot because of your name, and poured out your fornications on all who passed by; it was his.” (Ezekiel 16:14,15).
Something similar came about Uzziah:
- “And he made engines in Jerusalem, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones with. And *his name spread far abroad. For he was wonderfully helped* until he was strong. But *when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to ruin*. For he sinned against Jehovah his God, and went into the temple of Jehovah to burn incense on the altar of incense.” (2Chronicles 26:15,16).
In all this cases, we have diacritic proofs of the astringent warning of Proverbs:
- “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” (Proverbs 16.18).
- “A man's pride shall bring him low; but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.” (Proverbs 29.23).
This is so stringent that… look at what was necessary Paul to undergo for the sake of the revelations of Christ:
- “and by the surpassing revelations, lest I be made haughty, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be made haughty” (2Corinthians 12.7).
So, when Jesus denies you something, don’t utter diatribes against the Creator! Instead, be grateful! Certainly He is clearing away from your life a heavier yoke than you can endure or carry on.
Have a wondrous day in Christ.