Well, its Friday....so, I like to keep it short and sweet.
"They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless."
I found this verse to be VERY telling. Not only then, but also now. I often hear the saying, "you are what you eat", or "you reap what you sew"...this is along those same lines. I like to think of us people as precious in the eyes of the Lord. And I think that's true. He never gives up on us. But, at some point, if we aren't following his plan, and moving the ball in the right direction down the field...we become worthless in his mission. In fact, we can become the defense that is trying to stop his mission. Without directly trying to do that. When I read that verse, and think about todays culture, the idols are money, power, family, status, possessions....etc.
Same issues, different millenium
tp
Yep, completely agree. Its amazing how similar our cultures really are so many years later.
ReplyDelete41 So these nations feared the Lord and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
We split our time. Maybe deep in hour hearts we do fear the Lord, but our daily actions continue to worship the idols of our day...except on those days when that doesn't work then we/I go to God for his help. How shameful, but it is often my reality.
beginning to work to catch up after too much time away being in Australia...and struggling this week to get out of my bed in the morning!
knut