Be careful what you worship
Ordinary: It's 5am and I'm up with coffee and the scripture, trying to fill my spiritual cup for the day.
Extraordinary: That "aha" moment when God teaches you something new through a scripture you've seen before, and it's like he's speaking straight to you.
Today the verses that stood out to me and made me say "aha" was Psalm 115: 2-18. These verses describe idols and idol worship, and idol worshippers. I noticed the last verse especially.
Psalm 115: 2-18
2 Why should the nations say,
“Where, now, is their God?”
3 But our God is in the heavens;
He does whatever He pleases.
4 Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.
5 They have mouths, but they cannot speak;
They have eyes, but they cannot see;
6 They have ears, but they cannot hear;
They have noses, but they cannot smell;
7 [b]They have hands, but they cannot feel;
[c]They have feet, but they cannot walk;
They cannot make a sound with their throat.
8 Those who make them [d]will become like them,
Everyone who trusts in them.
What stood out to me was the last couple of verses that describe "those who make them" (and would also apply to those who worship them). Idols have ears but cannot hear, mouths but cannot speak, feet, but they cannot walk. Essentially, they are things, and they are dead. When worship "things", we are in danger of becoming more like those things. We can gradually loose the life within us. "Stuff" and "things" do not bring us life. This is why God wants us to be careful to worship Him and only Him. He wants us to hear with our ears, walk with our feet, and talk with our mouths. He wants us to have a beating heart, passions, hope, and love. He wants to give us life, and eternal life.
Wow- that's a great "aha moment". I think I may use this for Tea Time with the kiddos sometime soon. What was the last "aha" moment you had while reading the Word?
In Him,
Tink
Extraordinary: That "aha" moment when God teaches you something new through a scripture you've seen before, and it's like he's speaking straight to you.
Today the verses that stood out to me and made me say "aha" was Psalm 115: 2-18. These verses describe idols and idol worship, and idol worshippers. I noticed the last verse especially.
Psalm 115: 2-18
2 Why should the nations say,
“Where, now, is their God?”
3 But our God is in the heavens;
He does whatever He pleases.
4 Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.
5 They have mouths, but they cannot speak;
They have eyes, but they cannot see;
6 They have ears, but they cannot hear;
They have noses, but they cannot smell;
7 [b]They have hands, but they cannot feel;
[c]They have feet, but they cannot walk;
They cannot make a sound with their throat.
8 Those who make them [d]will become like them,
Everyone who trusts in them.
What stood out to me was the last couple of verses that describe "those who make them" (and would also apply to those who worship them). Idols have ears but cannot hear, mouths but cannot speak, feet, but they cannot walk. Essentially, they are things, and they are dead. When worship "things", we are in danger of becoming more like those things. We can gradually loose the life within us. "Stuff" and "things" do not bring us life. This is why God wants us to be careful to worship Him and only Him. He wants us to hear with our ears, walk with our feet, and talk with our mouths. He wants us to have a beating heart, passions, hope, and love. He wants to give us life, and eternal life.
Wow- that's a great "aha moment". I think I may use this for Tea Time with the kiddos sometime soon. What was the last "aha" moment you had while reading the Word?
In Him,
Tink
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