We love gold.
Don’t believe that? Check the prices. As of September 15, 2016, one ounce of the pure substance would set us back $1,320.40. In metric terms, one kilogram slaps us with a bill just slightly over $42,000.
If we make something of gold, it’s pretty precious, indeed.
Ancient Babylon was God’s golden vessel. The first part of Jeremiah 51:7 tells us:
“Babylon has been made a golden cup in the Lord’s hand.”
God cared so much about Babylon that he sent Daniel as his messenger to the leaders of that great city. There were also Daniel’s friends, the Hebrew children, Meshach, Shadrach, and Abednego. They were thrown in the fiery furnace for their arrogance.
God had committed the dominion of the earth to the princes of Babylon. They were God’s golden cup, filled with the plenty of his bountiful hand.
Yet the maddening wine of greed, idolatry, and false pride overflowed onto the peoples around Babylon. The second half of Jeremiah 51:7 gives us the rest of the story:
“[She] made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.”
God’s chosen anointing doesn’t mean we have his benevolence forever. The televangelist who glitters with God’s glory can fall from the Father’s graces, a Babylon destroyed, for whom we cry in pain.
If we worship fine houses and gleaming cars, we’ve focused on the golden cup rather than what’s in that cup. The glitter of the gold catches our eye, and we fail to see the destruction that awaits. Yet, all isn’t lost. We read on, and Jeremiah 51:9 begins with:
“We would have healed Babylon…”
The Father desires that none come to a bad end. He reaches to us over and over. When we take our eyes off that which glitters before the world, we’ll find God’s true treasure, the golden vessel of salvation that comes to us in the form of Christ our Lord.
The golden gleam of salvation is the only gold that assures an eternal guarantee.
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