What is a god? By most people’s standards, it’s anything that has power over us. Do we give that power to our gods, or do they already have power over us?
One of the Ten Commandments entreats us not to put any other gods before Jehovah. It’s up to us to set those gods aside, and follow wholly after the Supreme Ruler who created everything by His Holy Hand.
What about those other gods? How do we recognize them?
Isaiah 44:13 tells us:
“The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a line; he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.”
One things this verse makes clear is that the gods of this world are attractive. We want to hold them close to us. If they aren’t quite what we dream, then we adjust our dream, and make our gods into what we want them to be.
Money? We let it become important to us, to the point that we are willing to sacrifice everything to it. It has become a god.
Social status? We parade our relationships with others to increase our standing in society. If we have to cast off those without a pedigree, then good riddance. They are holding us back. In that moment, we have created a new god.
Religious dogma? When our system of worship becomes more important than the hearts of fellow believers, then we have lifted our man-made truths and elevated them above the love of Christ. We have given them life and godhood, neither of which Jehovah intended.
We cut our tree, use half to fuel our cook stoves, and the rest we shape into the image we desire. Then we worship that image, placing it above Jehovah, above our family, and above our fellow man. Our self-made gods are on the way to becoming our downfall, no matter how we pretend they are all to the honor of God.
There is no god besides Jehovah God, the Supreme Ruler and Creator of all that was, all that is, and all that ever will be. All else is chaff, blowing away in the torrential wind of his eternal spoken word.
God doesn’t need for us to rewrite him for the modern-day world. He is exactly who he needs to be, unchanging and forever, as described in his Holy Word.
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