How are you filling your needs?

[Christ4Ever]

And they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. 1 Chronicles 5:25 NKJV

The language of the bible doesn’t pull any punches when it describes unfaithfulness to God. The people of Israel are described as prostitutes seeking the provision offered by other gods to meet their needs. An idol or false god wasn’t just a matter of religious observance. It met a need, such as more rain for the farms in a land that lacked other irrigation options. An idol was a means to fill a need, to pay the bills, or to make the pain go away.

You may not have a statue you bow in front of in a temple or an altar on a hillside dedicated to a god that promises rain, fertility, or peace. But there are plenty of other wrong ways to meet your needs, to take care of your problems, and to dull the pain and fear of life. Whatever you rely on rather than God will fast become an idol that will make more demands on your life and claim your allegiance. Over time, you can find that you can rely on your own means (and idols)—or you can surrender your future to God alone. You can’t keep up that kind of division forever.

Today may be the moment to make a choice once and for all.

Prayer: Lord, teach me to trust in You completely, with an undivided heart.

 

[Brother-Paul]

Amen brother.

Part of my current reading, and as you say, the language of the Bible does not pull any punches when it describes unfaithfulness to God.

Romans 1:18-32
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

And there are many more scriptures like it.

THE WRATH of God, only a fool would ignore the warnings.

THE WRATH of God, is not something to consider lightly.

THE WRATH of God, is revealed from heaven AGAINST ALL Ungodliness, ALL Unrighteousness.