The Created and the Creator: From “I Will” to “Thy Will”
From “I Will” to “Thy Will”
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” — Philippians 2:5
The Ascent That Became a Fall
The Five ‘I Wills’ of Lucifer.”
“You said in your heart,
I will ascend into heaven;
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will sit on the mount of the congregation;
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the Most High.”
— Isaiah 14:13–14
“You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty… You were blameless in your ways until iniquity was found in you.”— Ezekiel 28:12, 15
The prophets describe a being once radiant with reflected light, a creature formed near the flame of God’s glory, who forgot the difference between reflection and source.
The light that passed through him was never his own. The fall began not with weakness but with self-exaltation.
The Five ‘I Wills’ of Lucifer.”
“I will ascend into heaven.”
The rejection of dependence, the refusal of grace.
“I will exalt my throne.”
The lust to rule rather than reflect.
“I will sit on the mount.”
The desire to occupy rather than to worship.
“I will ascend above the clouds.”
The hunger to transcend limitation instead of trust within it.
“I will be like the Most High.”
The grasping at divinity without love — the counterfeit of communion.
Verse 15 then reverses them all:
“Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.”
The song of heaven fractured when the created tried to rise without being raised. And the echo of that rebellion still whispers in every human heart.
The Descent That Revealed God
“Though He was in the form of God, He did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in human likeness.”— Philippians 2:6–7
Where Lucifer said “I will ascend,”
Christ said “Thy will be done.”Where pride reached upward, Love released downward.
He who spoke the stars entered their silence.
He who held the heavens became a child beneath them.
He who commanded angels washed the feet of men.
“He humbled Himself, becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross.”— Philippians 2:8
The movement of God is always the opposite of grasping.
The infinite bends low, and in that descent shows what divinity truly is.
The Feigned and the True
“And the Lord said to Satan, ‘From where do you come?’ Then Satan answered, ‘From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.’”— Job 1:7
The feigned omniscience of the one who goes to and fro on the earth is the restless knowledge of a predator— seeing without understanding, knowing without love. It is intrusion mistaken for insight, a gaze that devours what it beholds.
But true omniscience belongs to the Shepherd who became the Lamb—the Protector who became the prey.
He entered the reach of the hunter
and let Himself be taken, not from weakness, but to unmask what power is.
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”— John 10:11
The deceiver roams to devour; the Son remains to redeem.The false light feeds on fear; the true Light offers Himself as bread.
The predator feigns omniscience through pursuit; the Creator reveals it through presence.
He knows not to control, but to carry. He sees not to accuse, but to heal.
The all-knowing became the all-loving, and in being lifted up, He drew all eyes back to truth.
The Therefore of Heaven
“Therefore God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name,that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow—in heaven, on earth, and under the earth—and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,to the glory of God the Father.”— Philippians 2:9–11
The Father exalted the Son because the Son yielded.
What pride sought to seize, humility received.
The one who said “Thy will” became the center of all worship.
“Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands. They encircled the throne and cried with a loud voice:
‘Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strengthand honor and glory and blessing!’”— Revelation 5:11–12
The false light is silenced; the true Light fills the heavens. The liar who said “I will be like the Most High” is unmasked before the One who is the Most High, the Lamb enthroned at the center of all things.
The Invitation
Every soul still lives between these two phrases: I will and Thy will.
One isolates; the other restores.
One climbs; the other kneels.
One demands worship; the other becomes it.
To say “Thy will be done” is not defeat—it is alignment.
It is the restoration of breath to the Source……creation resonating once more with the rhythm of its Maker.
“For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things.To Him be the glory forever.”— Romans 11:36
Benediction
Let every false I will in us yield to Your Thy will.
Let the predator in our hearts be unmade by the Shepherd’s gaze.
May the knowledge that devours be replaced by the knowing that heals.
And may our breath join the myriads who cry forever,
Worthy is the Lamb.