Today’s Scrip-Bit 18 July 2026 Isaiah 42:8.
Isaiah 42:8. ‘I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.’
And it’s a wonderful kind of day for enjoying a lazy-day Saturday inside! Meaning that it’s humid, somewhat cloudy and raining; the perfect weather to just wrap up in your covers and go right back to sleep. I enjoyed a little of that earlier on, but unfortunately had to get up and come down to write the Bit. Chuh man!
Hopefully and thankfully though, the little rain will wash away some of the smoke effects from the forest fires still burning ferociously up in the north country. Although I’m just noticing that the computer is telling me that the air quality is very poor. Now, let’s pray that whatever little rain might fall up there will help to put out those fires and more people won’t have to be evacuated from their homes and possibly lose all of their life’s work to the fiery elements. And before we get too deeply entrenched in our lazy-day Saturday activities, (smile) let’s offer up our Lazy-Day Saturday Prayer, in all sincerity and truth.
As one strong voice: ‘Lord, I want to be with You now. Please slow my thoughts and quiet my soul. Let my muscles relax, my breath deepen. You are here with me – Your peace and LOVE are present. I marvel to think You can’t be contained, that Your LOVE both surrounds and fills me. Thank You for this tenderness, Lord. I praise You for Your unceasing nearness. Increase my awareness of You today, that I may know You all the more. Amen!’
And there’s no doubt that if the Lord checked our hearts and found them to be sincere in desiring greater intimacy with Him, that He will soon issue orders for a heavenly kind of peace and calm to fill our souls, for His eternal desire is to get close to, and intimate with all of His human creation. Now today, we’ll look at an interesting scripture from the Book of the prophet Ezekiel, regarding the King of Tyrus’s pride.
First off, let’s note these words from Cousin Sol in Proverbs. ‘These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him (his soul). A proud look (haughty eyes), a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations (devises wicked schemes), feet that be swift in running to mischief (evil), A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.’ (Prov. 6:16-19)
So we see the things that get God’s anger moving, and the first one is foolish pride, a sin of which so many of us down through the ages have been guilty of and for which many have been punished, because when you are haughty and prideful, you’re saying that you don’t need Almighty God, you can do it all yourself. Remember how the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar claimed that he had done all the wonderful work of his kingdom himself, and before the words could come out of his mouth the Lord sentenced him to seven years of madness, eating grass in the field like oxen, until he came to realize who was the One true God and admitted it to all and sundry. (Dan. 4: 28-37)
Now apparently the king of Tyrus (Tyre), did likewise. The Bible tells us: The word of the Lord came again unto me (Ezekiel), saying, Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up (proud), and thou hast said I am a God (a god), I sit in the seat of God (gods), in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God (a god), though thou set thine heart as the heart of God (a god):
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and has gotten silver and gold into thy treasures: By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick (trading) hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches.’ (Ezek. 28:1-5)
Oh my people, that surely sounds familiar to all of us, because all of us know somebody or bodies whose pride has been lifted up by their riches. That someone might even be one of us. (smile) But please, please, I plead with us, let’s not go down that road, because the Lord will certainly make an example of us as He did with the king of Tyrus (Ethbaal III (591/90 -573/72 B.C.), for saying that he was a divine being, a god and behaving as such, when he was only a mortal man, as God pointed out to him in verse 2 above.
Then Ezekiel continues: ‘Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God (a god); Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible (most terrible) of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.’ (Ezek. 28:6-10)
And we know when the Lord makes a promise, He keeps it. Ah friends, pride is one of, if not the worst sin we can commit against God for it totally leaves Him out of the equation, and that He will not stand still for. Remember His words from Isaiah: ‘I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.’ (Is. 42:8)
Yes my brethren, the Lord guards His praise and glory very zealously, so let’s be careful not to get on His wrong side by exhibiting things like pride and idolatry, for we will surely suffer the negative consequences. Much LOVE!
…the Lord He is God…and will prove it to anyone…who tries to say or do otherwise…
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