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They Traded Their Glorious God
For
A Statue Of A Grass-Eating Bull
Psalm 106
20 They traded their glorious God
for a statue of a grass-eating bull.
Observation
Before
you and I think too harshly about the children of Israel and how stupid they
were we need to examine our own lives and our own hearts.
What
are we putting as most important in our lives? Whatever we put as most
important to us is our god.
Our
spouse should not be most important, nor our children and sorry not even our
grandchildren, nor work, and for sure not our hobbies (fishing, hunting,
racing, beach, shopping, clubbing, etc) – no one, no thing, or no activity
should have God’s number one place in our life!
How
we answer these two questions will give us a pretty good idea of what has become
“grass-eating bull” in our life:
- Look at our checkbook or bank account – what are we spending our money on?
- What are we doing on most Sundays?
Answers
to those two questions will pretty much pinpoint whether we have traded our
relationship with a glorious God for a “statue of a grass-eating bull”!
Our
“grass eating-bull” can be anything! Anything that takes God’s Number One place
in our life!
Does
something need to change to make God Number One? Calendar adjustment? Heart
adjustment? Let’s make that change right now!
I
don’t want anything to take God’s Number One place in my life. How about you?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, I know that I am no different than those that You led through the
wilderness and I know how easy it is for me to allow other things to move in
and take You off of the throne in my heart. Help me to stay away from stupid
sins. Help me to keep You as the glorious God in my life. Don’t let me put any
person or any thing in Your place.
I
pray for those reading this blog this morning. Give them victory this week in
their struggles. Help them to walk close to You. Bring godly people into their
lives to encourage them. Show them that they can trust in You. Show them
anything in their life that needs to change. And show me anything in my life
that is not pleasing to You.
> If you are reading this simple blog this morning you are an encouragement to me!
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