Worship Is Not Raised Hands and Singing-- It is Whom I Obey

"There shall be no foreign god among you; Nor shall you worship any foreign god."  (Psalm 81:9)

The family of the man who was trampled to death at the entrance of an American retail business is now suing the business, not the barbarians who trampled the man.  This is a culture who has rejected Jesus Christ and embraced a "foreign god."  Everyone but the perpetrator is guilty.  Look at what has happened to the American judicial system in the last 45 years.  Look at American political correctness.  It has worshipped at the altar of a "foreign god."  When a culture rejects "Immanuel, God with us," Jesus Christ, the "Word of God," it commits cultural suicide.  The God-Breathing Word declares, "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs."  You will see this fulfilled more and more in the coming months and years in America.

I have worshipped a "foreign god" in my life time.  It was not made of gold.  It had no form, but it "had" me.  When obedience gives way to emotion, to my own reasoning process, or just out right disobedience, it reveals whom I really worship.  Jesus came to deliver us from "foreign gods," to save us from the sin which drives us to worship anyone and anything other than the Lord God revealed solely in Jesus Christ.  One of the last commands in the Bible is, "Worship God," not my idea of Him, but the "idea" of Him Who is revealed in the "God-Breathed" Word.

Take a "worship check" today.  Grace is awaiting all those whose worship is the Living Triune God, "Emmanuel, God with us."  Embrace His grace, by embracing and obeying Jesus Christ, the One Who breathes His Word into you today.

Father, in Jesus' Name, by His Blessed Majesty, Holy Spirit, help me to continually take a worship check.  Amen. 
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I will be preaching in the CCE meetings the weekend of December 13 and 14.
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