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Tuesday, October 19, 2004
This is different for me. I usually find that I have a distinct place I am being led towards. However, I haven't written in a while and things have been sort of hard. So I guess I will try to talk a little bit about what I have seen as I have been reading through the old testament. The first thing I see is that the LORD takes very seriously any type of idol. Kings, countries, families all are brought to ruin by the sin of worshipping idols. In fact, it almost seems to be the one sin that draws GOD to wrath quickly. OF course God says that HE "slow to anger and quick to forgive" but HE is very serious about not being recognized for who HE is. When all the kings were judged as good or evil, the evil ones were recognized for worshipping the other gods. So we have that GOD takes serious the worship of people. And we all worship....the question is who or what do we worship? Close to this was the importance of what a family did. David was established as a legacy forever because of his role in worshipping the LORD. Another king see his family destroyed because of his evil. I think the LORD is trying to show us how serious this is. Maybe it even goes to a fundamental level. What you worship is what you become...not in a zen like sense of foolishness. But if I worship the living GOD then I will become to be conformed to HIS image. If I worwhip evil then I will begin to emulate that as well. The kings who worshipped other gods slowly began to do horrible things to the people as well. In essence what we worship leads us to what we become. Worship is powerful and intimate. Thus when we enter true worship of God we see HIM inhabit the praises of HIS people. And HIS people are changed. IT's the difference between true worship and enjoying the music. or worshipping the wrong thing. |
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