Make No Idols

Responses to God's Faithfulness

God is Faithful

Live in the light of God (Isaiah 2:5) 

Obedient Faith

Deuteronomy 4:14-24 New International Version
14 And the Lord directed me at that time to teach you the decrees and laws you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

Idolatry Forbidden

15 You saw no form of any kind the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, 16 so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, 17 or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air, 18 or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below. 19 And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven. 20 But as for you, the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.
21 The Lord was angry with me because of you, and he solemnly swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance. 22 I will die in this land; I will not cross the Jordan, but you are about to cross over and take possession of that good land. 23 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the Lord your God has forbidden. 24 For the Lord, your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

For Reflection

In those days, idol worship was common. Today we rarely hear of those worshiping idols.  Our idols do not take form and substance. But, none-the-less, we worship things, other than God. Some of us worship money or power. Others worship accomplishments.  We commit idolatry when we revere anything but God. We rearrange our existence around ourselves selves, and therefore we displace God as creator, WE heal, WE save sinners, WE sustain our lives. At that point, we worship ourselves, not God.

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Pray so so that you will live life humbly acknowledging that God is the source of all things sustains you.

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