Not content

"I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." (Isaiah 14:14)

These are two of the "I will's" of Satan--or Lucifer--as he aspired to usurp the throne of God as ruler of the universe ( Isaiah 14:12-15);( Ezekiel 28:11-17). Not content to be "the anointed cherub," the highest of the angelic hierarchy (Ezekiel 28:14), he wanted to be God, and this monstrous pride became "the condemnation of the devil" (1 Timothy 3:6), so that he is now "fallen from heaven" and will soon be "brought down to hell" (Isaiah 14:12, 15).

Lucifer, of course, is not the Creator, for he was "created" (Ezekiel 28:15) himself. It would seem therefore that for him to rationalize his ambition to be like the most High, he must somehow persuade himself that he is like the most High--that is, that God is a created being like himself, and thus can be defeated. He only had God's word that he had been created by Him, and he evidently chose not to believe what God said (just as do multitudes of men and women today).

He, like they, chose rather to believe that the eternal cosmos had somehow created them all by its own powers. The great cosmos (call it Mother Nature, perhaps) has "created" spirit beings, as well as men and women, and all the worlds inhabited by them. In this scenario, the true Creator God is viewed as only one of many. Therefore He is vulnerable to defeat--or so Satan evidently believes.

Thus Lucifer became the first evolutionist, and this great lie by which he deceived himself became the basis of his later deception of Eve and then of the founders of all the varied pantheistic religions of the world, as well as modern evolutionism and "New Age" philosophies. Nevertheless, God is still on His throne, and "the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings"

One day the world shall see him for who he is truly is a liar who was not content with God's authority, with all that our Heavenly Father provides for us we are still not content.   He gave us life, he gives us new grace and mercy each day, he promised that he would never leave nor forsake us.  Why is that not enough for many of us?  What about the shedding of blood at Calvary was that enough for you?  Not really because there is still complaining among us in the church to this day. Because Deacon So and So got a new BMW or sister So and So  just got a new home, why can't God do that for me.  Your heavenly Father said he fore-knew you  meaning before you were a twinkle in your mother's eye.  Its time we learned to be content with the blessing that God has given us.