Idols Then Idols Now

What fault did your ancestors find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.)  But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols.  Where then are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them come if they can save you when you are in trouble! For you, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns.(Jeremiah 2:5, 11, 28)

Whether it’s the pursuit of money or material gain, grasping for power and control, straining for popularity and acceptance, chasing celebrity and credibility I sometimes wonder if we’re no less idolatrous a people as Judah.

If we are, there is still a way to return to God.

If you, Israel, will return, then return to me,” declares the Lord. “If you put your detestable idols out of my sight and no longer go astray, and if in a truthful, just and righteous way you swear, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’ then the nations will invoke blessings by him and in him they will boast.Break up your unplowed ground and do not sow among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, circumcise your hearts, you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, (Jeremiah 4:1-4a)

For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden

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