Choose Your Idol

Doesn’t that sound like a lot of Christians you know? The attitude I often find is that Jesus has been gone a long time and the promise of his soon return seems lost in that delay. The majority of the church world has given up on Jesus coming again. You can tell by their lifestyles that they don’t believe it anymore. How can we say that we believe in the imminent return of our Holy Lord to take away his Bride when there is so much foolishness and sin within those who claim to be a part of that Bride.

The church world has decided that they can make their own way to Heaven. Many have discarded God’s path to salvation. They no longer believe in the Blood of the Lamb and its cleansing power. They no longer believe that Jesus is the only way. They have slowly accepted false doctrines and another gospel as though they could be saved by any means they choose. So many of our so called Christian churches have become little more than a side show or a social club and there is no power of God in them to change lives. Entertainment and motivation are their theme and not the salvation of lost souls.

The individual Christians have decided that they can live in the world, act like the world, talk like the world, take part in every activity that the world has to offer and it just doesn’t matter anymore. They have taken their freedom in Christ and they have abused that freedom.

Romans 6:1-2, "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" Too many people take the grace of God for granted. They think that his grace will cover every sin, even those that are unrepentant. My friend God still requires holiness if we are to see him. He will not wink at sin. Sin is sin and the wages of that sin is still death. I’m afraid that many who believe they are saved will discover that they are not on Judgment Day. We can’t create our own god’s to lead us. We must follow only the leading of the one true God.

…the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said unto him, up; make us gods which shall go before us…

Israel was ready to create their own symbol of God that would lead them to the Promised Land. If the pillar and the cloud would not move then they would follow another “god”. They knew that this “god” was not living but it became a symbol of the presence of the living God, a symbol of their own making. The 10 commandments were yet to be given to them but that did not make them innocent in the sight of God. There disobedience and unbelief were enough but now they created their own graven image to represent God, thus they became idol worshippers.

We can easily see this same attitude in our churches today. How many people create their own symbolism of the presence of God in their churches? How many preachers push people down in an effort to force God to move in the hearts of his people? How many preachers fake miracles of healing and deliverance to “prove” that God’s anointing is upon them? How many use their own speaking and oratorical and motivational skills to make people believe that the anointing is upon them? How many create a whole ministry based on one simple thing like blowing on you, touching your head, or some other theatrics to create a false atmosphere of the presence of the Lord.