Ezekiel 28:6-10: in context

This is a word of judgment against the prince of Tyre, who in his wealth and success had come to think of himself as more than a man. Because you have set your heart as the heart of God, the LORD says, therefore I will bring strangers against you, the most ruthless of nations, who will bring down your splendor and cast you into the pit. And then a piercing question: will you still say, I am God, before the one who kills you? You are but a man, and not God, in the hand of the one who wounds you. He will die the death of the slain, for God has spoken it.

The sin at the root of this judgment is the pride that sets itself in God's place: you have set your heart as the heart of God. The prince of Tyre, made proud by wealth and wisdom and success, had come to think of himself as a god, self-sufficient, answerable to no one, the master of his own fate. And God's reply cuts through the delusion: you are but a man, and not God. It is the ancient temptation, the one at the root of the first sin, to be as gods, to refuse our creatureliness, to imagine ourselves self-sufficient and supreme, in charge of our own lives and answerable to no higher authority. The prince of Tyre took it to its extreme, but the impulse is in every human heart, the pride that quietly assumes we are the center, the master, the god of our own small world. And the correction is the same for us as for him: you are but a man. We are creatures, not the Creator, dependent, mortal, in the hand of the one who made us and can wound us; and the pride that forgets this, that sets itself in God's place, is heading for a fall. There is a mercy in the reminder, hard as its wording is. To remember that we are but mortals, creatures in the hand of God, is not a diminishment but the truth that keeps us from the ruinous delusion of playing God with our lives. You are but a man, and not God: it is a word worth hearing before the fall that pride prepares.

Have I, in my success or self-sufficiency, quietly set my heart in God's place, living as though I were the master and center of my own world, and do I need to hear the correction given to the prince of Tyre, that I am but a creature in the hand of the God who made me?