Worshipping Things That Cannot See, Hear or Walk!
Reading: Revelation 9
My Verse: "The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts" (9:20,21).
Dear LORD God, my heart just breaks at this. You go to such great lengths to bring mankind around to YOU, to Your love, to Your desire to forgive and love us. And yet, even with all the horror of those final days people still will not repent. They will continue to refuse admitting You are our creator God. They will continue clinging to the idea that they don't need to be saved, that they don't need forgiveness. They choose instead to worship that "which cannot see or hear or walk." Idols can be many things but basically it comes down to the fact that we do all end up worshiping something, something manmade.
Listening to the radio the other day I heard a discussion of the most common argument for Your existence. That is the moral argument. We all of us have an innate moral law within that cannot be explained away. We all know that certain things are wrong. So the question becomes if we are evolved from mud puppies where did this innate law come from?
Paul speaks of this innate law in Romans 2:14-15. "When Gentiles who have not the (divine) Law do instinctively what the Law requires, they are a law to themselves, since they do not have the Law. They show that the essential requirements of the Law are written in their hearts and are operating there, with which their consciences also bear witness; and their moral decisions will accuse or perhaps defend and excuse [them]."
Various studies have been done that indicate the truth in this. One such study was done at Yale University. In it they used babies six to eight months old. The lead Professor, a Paul Bloom has concluded thus. "A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life. With the help of well designed experiments, you can see glimmers of moral thought, moral judgement and moral feeling even in the first year of life. Some sense of good and evil seems to be bred in the bones." And this is a secular study! It is rather fascinating to read some of the studies and research papers done on this idea. Most cannot get away from the idea that everyone seems to have some kind of innate moral sense. Just as Paul said. "They show the essential requirements of the Law are written in their hearts and are operating there, with which their consciences also bear witness."
So LORD God, this makes it all the more sad that we find it so hard to admit our sin, admit our need of You. We know in our hearts we are sinful, because we know what is right and what is wrong. You created us so. We also, each of us knows in the very deepest part of our heart that You are the God and creator of all. You continually draw us to You. Oh, LORD God, thank you for drawing me to You. Thank You for saving me from worhsiping things that "cannot see or hear or walk."
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
Reading: Revelation 9
My Verse: "The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts" (9:20,21).
Dear LORD God, my heart just breaks at this. You go to such great lengths to bring mankind around to YOU, to Your love, to Your desire to forgive and love us. And yet, even with all the horror of those final days people still will not repent. They will continue to refuse admitting You are our creator God. They will continue clinging to the idea that they don't need to be saved, that they don't need forgiveness. They choose instead to worship that "which cannot see or hear or walk." Idols can be many things but basically it comes down to the fact that we do all end up worshiping something, something manmade.
Listening to the radio the other day I heard a discussion of the most common argument for Your existence. That is the moral argument. We all of us have an innate moral law within that cannot be explained away. We all know that certain things are wrong. So the question becomes if we are evolved from mud puppies where did this innate law come from?
Paul speaks of this innate law in Romans 2:14-15. "When Gentiles who have not the (divine) Law do instinctively what the Law requires, they are a law to themselves, since they do not have the Law. They show that the essential requirements of the Law are written in their hearts and are operating there, with which their consciences also bear witness; and their moral decisions will accuse or perhaps defend and excuse [them]."
Various studies have been done that indicate the truth in this. One such study was done at Yale University. In it they used babies six to eight months old. The lead Professor, a Paul Bloom has concluded thus. "A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life. With the help of well designed experiments, you can see glimmers of moral thought, moral judgement and moral feeling even in the first year of life. Some sense of good and evil seems to be bred in the bones." And this is a secular study! It is rather fascinating to read some of the studies and research papers done on this idea. Most cannot get away from the idea that everyone seems to have some kind of innate moral sense. Just as Paul said. "They show the essential requirements of the Law are written in their hearts and are operating there, with which their consciences also bear witness."
So LORD God, this makes it all the more sad that we find it so hard to admit our sin, admit our need of You. We know in our hearts we are sinful, because we know what is right and what is wrong. You created us so. We also, each of us knows in the very deepest part of our heart that You are the God and creator of all. You continually draw us to You. Oh, LORD God, thank you for drawing me to You. Thank You for saving me from worhsiping things that "cannot see or hear or walk."
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
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