Thursday, January 3, 2013

Do men make their own gods? Yes, but they are not gods!

Jeremiah 16:1-21
The day of disaster is coming so the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:"You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place." All of them will die of deadly disease and will perish by sword and famine, become food for the birds and beasts.
Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have withdrawn my blessing from this people.
Do not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down to ear and drink. For Before your eyes and in your days I will brig an end to the sounds of joy and gladness.
Why such a great disaster against us? It is because your fathers forsook me, and followed other gods and served and worshiped them. But you have behaved more wickedly than your fathers.
My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden fro me, nor is their sin concealed from my eyes I will repay them double for their wickedness and their sin.
O Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and says,"Our fathers possessed nothing bur false gods, worthless idols that did them o good. Do men make their own gods? Yes, but they are not gods!"
Why?
Yes, we always create a god even not by wood or metal but some idols higher than the Lord, be careful. Such as boss in working place, daughter or son, favorite fashions.
God's instruction to Jeremiah is plain: 'do not marry'. By remaining single, in a society where this was almost unheard of. Jeremiah becomes a living symbol of God's message.
Very soon there will be the most terrible famine and slaughter in Jerusalem. This is no time, no place, to raise a family.
As God removes this peace and his love from them, the people will at last know him as the Almighty. Yet God still has a future for them, and the prophet declares his confidence in God.
How?
Only in God there is peace and comfort blessing. Searching for the real peace and joy in the Lord. Do not make our own gods!
I am working under my boss, but he is not my god, his is a man, I am follow and obey the instruction of the Lord almighty. But do my responsibility in my job.



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