Once upon a time everything in the universe was perfect!
There was a good King who ruled from His Throne.
He was worshiped, and there was no one or no thing like Him.
He had one Son and He was just as good as His Father, the King.
When the King was worshiped, His Son was worshiped too.
Everyone in the Kingdom served them – not because they had to but because they wanted to – out of love for the King and His Son.
The Father and Son had raised up three worshipers above the rest; their names were “Gift, Morning Star, and Messenger”.
Everything in the universe was perfect.
When The King and His Son were worshiped, Gift, Morning Star, and Messenger would worship them together with all the other worshipers
Yet Morning Star began to wonder why he wasn’t being worshiped.
And Morning Star began to look down on The King’s Son.
He asked himself why The King’s Son was given more honor than him.
One afternoon Morning Star stood up to the King and to His Son.
Morning Star refused to worship The King and rebelled against Him.
Pride had built up in Morning Star, he thought he deserved to be King.
He told The King to step down, to get off His throne and let him rule.
The King had to cast Morning Star out of the perfect Kingdom where Morning Star remains even today – allowing his pride to control him.
The prophet Isaiah wrote about Morning Star; How you have fallen from heaven,
morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” But you are brought down to the realm of the dead to the depths of the pit. (Isaiah 14:12-15)
Morning Star now goes by a different name – we know him as Satan. Satan tries to tell us that we deserve more than we have. Satan tries to tell us that we are more important than others. Satan tries to tell us that we are more important than God.
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