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Ezekiel Chapter 31. You could have prevented this whole thing if you would have just listened.
God prophesies to King Pharaoh of Egypt and his group of leaders.
God asks Pharaoh who can be compared to all his majesty? God asks him, do you remember how great Lebanon was and how he was more majestic than any other nation. God said I made him great, but pride settled in and eventually God said he destroyed Lebanon.
God again said to King Pharaoh of Egypt, who can be compared to your majesty? God said I have made you great and majestic. But just like Lebanon, you too have become prideful so just as I destroyed Lebanon, so I will destroy you.
Wow! Pride is such a destructive quality. 1 John 2:16-17 says, “For everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, comes not from God, but from the world. The world and its desires will pass away, but whoever does the will of God, lives forever.”
The greatest interference preventing us from receiving all God has for us, is the lust for something or someone and our pride. And if not dealt with, destruction comes. God's discipline will come in hopes of us seeing that he is the one true God and then seeing the need to get right with God.
Egypt could have prevented the destruction God declared against them, if they would have humbled themselves before God, confessed their sins and surrendered their lives to the Lord.
What about me? What do I lust for and what do I desire? Am I going to surrender over the worldly lusts and my pride and prevent God's discipline in my life? Am I going to continue in my lust and pride and then face the very thing from God that I could have prevented by surrendering it to the Him?
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