Today’s Devotion
Topic: They Have Turned Their Backs To Me And Not Their Faces!
Text: Jeremiah 2: 26- 28
26 “As a thief is disgraced when he is caught, so the people of Israel are disgraced—
they, their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets.
27 They say to wood, ‘You are my father,’ and to stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!’
28 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.” Amen
Israel was at it again, neglecting the God of their fathers and chasing after lesser gods. Everyone of them, from their kings to even their prophets. Yet when in trouble, they call out to Jehovah and say ‘come and save us!’
Beloved, some of us have become just like them. Yes, we may not necessarily make craven images out of a tree and worship them, but we sure have created several gods in our lives.
Sometimes even the very blessings that God gifts us with become like gods to us; our wealth, marriage, jobs, and even possessions. We feel more secured and more confident in those things than in the Word of God. As a matter of fact, some can go as far as using these “blessings” as excuses when it comes to the things of God.
Well, this we do until trouble comes. Then we run to prayer meetings, pastors and all night vigils with just one prayer request on our lips, “Lord come and save us”. “Where then are the gods you made for yourselves?” One would wonder. “Why don’t they save you in times of trouble?”
The answer is very simple, it is because no other god can save, and we know it. “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4: 12) That name is Jesus.
Begin to pray now. Repent of idolatry and ask the Lord to restore unto you the joy of His salvation. Why should you turn your back to the Lord and not your face. David said “One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek Him in His temple (Ps 27: 4).
How can anyone gaze upon the beauty of the Lord with their backs turned to Him? Remember “we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into His image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit” (2 Cor 3: 18). Turn your face to the Lord rather, and your back to the world.
Gazing at Him automatically radiates His beauty in you; your life is never the same again. See you at church.
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