“Choose for yourselves this day who you will serve” (Joshua 24:15)
God created us to worship. The problem is that we can at times become confused about who it is we are to worship. The Hebrews certainly did when they entered the Promised Land. Baal was a Canaanite god that competed with Jehovah God. Sadly, archeologists have found ancient pottery in Israel that reveals the Israelites joined together Jehovah with Baal as the same god. They merged the true God and the false god into one.
Today, we are not so blatant about worshiping another god with the One true God. Or are we? Perhaps what we do today is lack the knowledge to distinguish the difference between what is good and what is best. Obviously, what is best for us is our relationship with Jesus Christ. However, many times we can push Christ off to the side of life and place our priorities on something or someone else other than Him. It can easily happen for us to make things and people more dear to us than Christ is. This is one of the greatest dangers that can snare us.
I have seen this happen to so many believers over the years. They pray and ask God for a job, when they have their prayer answered the job becomes the priority of their life. I know of some who have prayed for a relationship to be healed, and when God heals that relationship, they suddenly become too busy with the other person that they have very little time for God.
It is so easy for our humanity to allow the good things in life to become more important to us than the best God has for us. Things like making a living, power, our social status, success in some area of life, the car we drive, the home we live in. Even, and you won’t like me saying this, but even our family and friends can become the good that we choose over the best. There is also the temptation to become consumed with what is happening in America and the world, or the End Times, that we end up pushing God out as the priority of our life.
We need to break away from serving what is good over what is best. We need to take a close look at our motives and where our time, money, and efforts go. We can all too easily find ourselves doing the same sort of mixing those early Israelites did, by combining what is worldly with what is spiritual, and convince ourselves that our worship of God is pure.
Darlene
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