Luke 1:51 “He hath shown strength with his arm, he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.” Comment: We are going to examine two Greek words here. The first is the word “proud”. It means one who shows himself above his fellow men in honor preferring himself! Pride was the first sin in heaven and in the earth! Lucifer rebelled against God in heaven being cast out of heaven and with one third of the angels who followed Lucifer unto the earth! Then Lucifer who became Satan offered Eve in the Garden of Eden the same opportunity to rebel against God! Rebellion has been the history of man! When I hear the words “Pride Day” I cringe in my spirit! What fools! A fool has said in his heart there is no God! God’s character is just the opposite of pride! Jesus humbled himself even to death on a Cross! Jesus became our need! A sinner in need of a savior! Pride is sin! It creates the need for a savior! Jesus took our sin upon himself! Pride leads to war! War against God and man! The next word we need to look at is the word “imagination”. It means an intellectual understanding. It is the perception with thought coming unto consciousness of oneself knowing you exist from a source outside of yourself. It means to understand, apprehend and to discern. The mind is the organ of the Spirit and at the same time is the function of the heart. It is a conscious recognition of character and judgment. It is an intellectual faculty understanding with moral reflection characterized by a perverted moral impulse with intentions and designs. You are aware of yourself and God! My Bible says we were created in the Image of God or imagination of God! The problem has always been in terms of rebellion that we want to be more than his image! We want to be God! We want to create God in our image! A role reversal! We want to make ourselves greater than God as Lucifer tries to do! Answerable to only ourselves! We make the rules! We make laws to oppose God! Make our own religion or no religion where we can be God! Fire God and replace him with ourselves! Satan has his own Kingdom with his disciples in a place called Hell! God has his disciples in a place called Heaven! God had to send his only Son into the earth to show us a clear, true demonstration of his love and redemption! This is what Mary was rejoicing about in her Song of Praise! Light entering a dark world! Jesus not a created being as we but eternal part of the Trinity taking on our sin and death upon himself! God becomes flesh! Paying the price for our sin who was without sin! We cannot become the Image of God without God! God created male and female! There is no gender confusion here! Only Satan would try to bring gender confusion to attack God’s Image! The image of Satan is sin, death, confusion and judgment and destruction! The Image of God is life, redemption, salvation, forgiveness, peace, joy, freedom and liberty from the guilt of sin! Freedom from slavery and tyranny! When you look into your spiritual mirror what image do you see? How does your image compare with the Image of God presented to you in the Bible? James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com