(Jeremiah 16:20) “Can man make for himself gods? Such are not gods!”
One great troubling sin of ancient
Israel was idolatry, and the spiritual Israel of today is vexed with a
predisposition to the same foolishness. Personalities of the day struggle in
various forms to keep idolatry at bay with our carnal natures setting up altars
wherever it can find space for them. Our favourite pass times are often the
cause of much sin in our lives and we are not exempt from the folly of it all.
The Lord is saddened when He sees our affection to them above measure; they
will and do hinder our growth in Him. If Christians desire to grow spikes to
stuff their sleepless pillows, let them be taken by their desires. If this is
our pattern then we must all be willing to except the fate of our folly, are
we? Or do we hastily mutter when things do not plan out to our liking? May God
help me (us) to recognise the filth of it all and then to act in accordance
with His good pleasure.
A
little leaven leavens the entire lump, so as soon as we allow just a little
idolatry into our lives, we may just as well swallow it all, our lusts (the natural offspring of a carnal and corrupt
mind) feeding fuel to the fire.
It only takes a minuscule amount of yeast to empower bread to rise.
It is truly said that they are
harmless and yet objects of our foolish love are often taken by them, the
solace which they yield us now is dangerous, and the help which they can give
us in the hour of trouble is fruitless. When the chips are down our cry goes
out to our God and not some lifeless entity that can only ever tickle our
selfish pleasures. There is no enduring substance to idolization of any kind,
even nature with all of its creatures fall into the box marked “temporal”. Heaven
and earth shall pass away, but the WORD OF GOD will endure forever, Amen and
Amen! Why, then, are we so absorbed with vanities? “We pity the poor
heathen who adore a god of stone, and yet worship our gods of gold. Where
is the gigantic superiority between a god of flesh and one of wood?" The
principle, the sin, the folly is the same in either case, only that in ours the
crime is more intensified because we have more light, and sin in the face of
it. The heathen bows to a false deity, but the true God he has never known; we
commit two evils, inasmuch as we forsake the living God and turn unto idols. Lord
purge us all from fruitlessness is my prayer.
It is time to stand up and be
counter, the hour is near and the trump of God is about to sound, are our ears
tuned for the trump of God or will we try and play catch up like the five
foolish virgins?
The instruction is simple; all
those who confess Jesus as Lord, dress for battle, put off the rags of the
feeble empty promises of this world, get into line for our Commander is about
to cry out, “forward march”. It may even result in death or imprisonment, so be
it! The faithful we will reign and rule with Him for all eternity, all glory
belongs to our King, bless His name and may our heavenly Father give us the
resolve to see things for what they are and to act accordingly.
Signing off
Tyrone
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