I was just in the middle of going over some research my little brother James put together....which is good. It is a research on why he believes in what he believes.
Other Christians should take a step back and really understand why they believe in what they believe. If you ask most they really don't know...
"Its because I always grew up in church and been around it"---STUPID...Their is so much more to it then that....
I'll save that topic for another day....maybe!
Just into looking at what James sent me, he put a verse from Jeremiah 10:12
Usually when I read a verse I read it in context so I have to read the verses before and after. Even sometimes read a couple of chapters before.
I read Jeremiah 10:11
Thus shall to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens."
G-d is talking to the house of Israel. Israel is a perfect picture of us now....WE DON'T GET IT!
So many time G-d has to come to the house of Israel for harden hearts and seeking after idols and not him.
Just like us even today. We don't have to bow down to a golden calf for some dressed up piece of wood with silver, gold and clothes on. This is what the house of Israel is having as an idol!
So what is our idols?
Cars? Friends? Video Games? Work? Money? Girlfriend/Boyfriend? Family? TV? Shoes? Clothes? Staying up with the Jones(young kids ask your parents)? Doing work in church for attention? school (doesn't mean drop out)?
What is your idol?
Idols are simple....what ever you put before G-d is an idol.
I'm sure we all have idols including myself. I'm not a perfect guy here....
These thing have made a place among us as a "god" because it consumes us and controls us.
G-d put it plan when he spoke to the prophet:
Thus shall to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens."
This things we are consumed by, didn't make the very universe we live in. The very air we take in.
G-d is so much bigger!
"It is he who made the earth by his power,
who established the world by his wisdom,
and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain,
and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
Every man is stupid and without knowledge;
every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
and there is no breath in them"
Jeremiah 10:12-14
Written By: Kenny Leonard
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