PRIDE:
HUMAN; GOD: HIS SOVEREIGNTY; MAN: REBELLION AGAINST GOD

Yet in their pride men assert their will and claim ownership of the earth. Well, for a time it is true, this is man’s world. God is admitted only by man’s sufferance. He is treated as visiting royalty in a democratic country. Everyone takes His name upon his lips and (especially at certain seasons) He is feted and celebrated and hymned. But behind all this flattery men hold firmly to their right of self-determination. As long as man is allowed to play host he will honor God with his attention, but always He must remain a guest and never seek to be Lord. Man will have it understood that this is his world; he will make its laws and decide how it shall be run. God is permitted to decide nothing. Man bows to Him and as he bows, manages with difficulty to conceal the crown upon his own head.

Psalm 2:1–4; Psalm 9:19–20; Ezekiel 28:2; Daniel 4:17

The Divine Conquest, 45, 46.