God who makes us lowly

God made the nation of Egypt, which the Israelites relied on, lowly (Ezek. 29:14, 15). 

There are at least two reasons for this:

1. The reason was to show Egypt God's righteousness.  God made the country lowly because Egypt was proud (29:3, 9; 30:6, 18; 31:10, 14).
2. The reason was to give God’s grace and mercy by judging Egypt so that Egypt would no longer be a source of confidence for the people of Isrsel but would be a reminder of their sin in turning to her for help (29:16).

Lessons to learn:

God loves us so much that He makes the things that we rely on more than God lowly.  Thus, God makes us not to rely on it anymore.  The purpose of doing so is to make us depend only on God.

And the purpose of God is to make us look at God alone.

Although God forgives our sins and doesn’t remember them anymore, we often remember our sins.

To solve that problem, God makes the thing that we depend on more than God lowly.

God also makes us lowly when we are proud.  Thus, the Lord makes us low (30:6).

Therefore, God makes us humbly rely on God alone.