There is None Like God

The Inescapable God
God Reveals
Jeremiah 10:6-10 (The Message)
 ^6-9All this is nothing compared to you, O God.
   You're wondrously great, famously great.
Who can fail to be impressed by you, King of the nations?
   It's your very nature to be worshiped!
Look far and wide among the elite of the nations.
   The best they can come up with is nothing compared to you.
Stupidly, they line them up—a lineup of sticks,
   good for nothing but making smoke.
Gilded with silver foil from Tarshish,
   covered with gold from Uphaz,
Hung with violet and purple fabrics—
   no matter how fancy the sticks, they're still sticks.
 ¹⁰But God is the real thing—
   the living God, the eternal King.
When he's angry, Earth shakes.
   Yes, and the godless nations quake.
 
For Reflection No matter how well you dress it up; no matter how wonderful things you associate with it: no matter how many bobbles or how much bling you add, "The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her hair ...and drawls what of it?...and the golden girls came singing: We are the Greatest city, the greatest nation: nothing like us ever was.   ...and the only listeners are...the rats...and the lizards." (Carl Sandburg's Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind)

A grim prediction. that.  But no more grim than the the way we dress up false promises of a brighter tomorrow if we just participate in the latest health fad, blindly accept the latest government fix-it program, or consume the advertiser's product.  To what extent do you rely on the promise of God's offer of salvation?

Pray
for the wisdom to penetrate the false promises for a better life with out God.  Pray for the courage to trust in God's promise.