Be Like Mike
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★REMEMBER the Nike commercial? “I wanna be like Mike.” They sold a lot of tennis shoes with folk wanting to be like Mike. They sold a lot of #23 jerseys because folk wanted to be like Mike.
The problem is that it takes a lot more than tennis shoes to be like Mike! You got to be able to fly to be like Mike, because Mike is in a class by himself. He is unique among professional basketball players, so desiring to be like Mike and wearing the paraphernalia that gives the impression you’re like Mike does not make you like Mike, because he is too unique. When Satan offered the possibility of being like God to Adam and Eve, he was offering an impossibility.
He told them that the reason why God set up a boundary is that He didn’t want them to be like Him. However, the truth is that boundary or no boundary, they could never be like Him.
We can never be like Him. He is in a class by Himself.
The point
The desire to emulate a unique figure like Michael Jordan is doomed because he operates in a class by himself; similarly, Satan tempts us to 'be like God,' a promise God Himself has made impossible. A caution against illusions of equality.