This story helps us to understand what Jesus Christ meant when He said, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." What Iblis denied was the reflection of God in man; and one can observe the same law in every direction of life. A person may be rich in wealth or high in position, but he still must obey the policeman; it is not the rank and wealth which the latter has, but in him is reflected the power of the government, and when a man takes no heed of the policeman, he refuses to obey the law of the state. In everything small or great it is the same law; and in every person there is a spark of this tendency of Iblis; the tendency which we know as egotism, the tendency to say, "No, I will not listen; I will not give in; I will not consider. Because of what? Because of "I"; because "I am." But there is only one "I"--the perfect "I." He is God, whose power is mightier than any power existing in the world, whose position is greater than that of anyone; and He shows it in answer to the egotistic tendency of man, who is limited. This is expressed in the saying, "Man proposes, but God disposes." It is this thought which teaches man the virtue of resignation, which shows him that the "I" he creates is a much smaller "I", and that there is no comparison between this "I" and the "I" of the great Ego, God.