Come, descendants of Jacob, let us walk in
the light of the LORD. You, LORD, have
abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. They are full of superstitions
from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and embrace pagan
customs. Their land is full of silver
and gold; there is no end to their treasures. Their land is full of horses;
there is no end to their chariots. Their
land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their
fingers have made. So people will be
brought low and everyone humbled— do not forgive them. Go into the rocks, hide
in the ground from the fearful presence of the LORD and the splendor of his
majesty! The eyes of the arrogant will
be humbled and human pride brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that
day. The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all
the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled), for
all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty, and all the oaks of Bashan, for all
the towering mountains and all the high hills, for every lofty tower and every
fortified wall, for every trading ship and
every stately vessel. The arrogance of
man will be brought low and human pride humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted
in that day, and the idols will totally disappear. People will flee to caves in the rocks and to
holes in the ground from the fearful presence of the LORD and the splendor of
his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth. In that day people will throw away to the
moles and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to
worship. They will flee to caverns in
the rocks and to the overhanging crags from the fearful presence of the LORD and
the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.
What do I put in
front of the Lord? Is my pursuit of
things, the treasures of this world, affecting my relationship with God? I am guilty of having idols. I have walked past a homeless person and
judged that they were just going to buy drugs with what I gave them. I put my pride and self before Christ. Christ said we would always have the poor
with us, I believe it is our job to help them, in the love of Christ...what
that homeless person does with what I gave them, that shouldn’t matter to
me. Do I always do what I believe, no;
but I’m workin’ on it.
I should have
nothing in my possession that I would not be willing to give up, if Christ
called me to give it up. That thought
scares me a little, to be honest...I like my stuff. But as I grow in Christ I am struck by how
little worth those things have. I can’t
take it with me when I die!! When I am
before the Lord, the only thing I have to justify me is the redeeming blood of
Christ. Will I have to answer for all that
I have said and done, sure...but I have been bought and paid for. I would like to hear, “well done thou
faithful servant” when Christ looks at my life.
cej
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