"I will ascend!"

I will ascend” is what scripture says Satan declared in Isaiah 14. He said, “I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.”

Matthew Henry, (1662-1714) a Presbyterian minister and bible scholar says in his commentary on this portion of scripture, that “ it is gracious ambition to covet to be like the Most Holy, for he has said, ‘Be ye holy, for I am holy;’ but it is sinful ambition to aim to be like the Most High, for he has said, ‘He who exalts himself shall be abased.’”