Man made gods are no gods at all

Read Acts 19:23-41



The passage itself is long so I want you to make sure you spend time meditating on what happened in the narrative. So quickly go over it again making sure you know what actually is going on. So here we see that people are making idols and are threaten by Christians that are saying man made gods are no gods at all. Look at their protest. It doesn’t begin with, “this dishonors our gods that we worship”. It begins with “Don’t Let God Rob Us from things that benefit ME, ME, ME” (see verse 27) “there is danger not only that our trade will lose its good name”, and then it will dishonor the temple, and lastly it will dishonor our goddess.

Look at what the world values. The gods are here to serve us and meet our needs. We will appease the gods that it will work out for us. Sadly, many Christians treat GOD, Creator of the heavens and earth, this way. We treat him as like something out there that is there just to meet our needs. Or we are living out our lives to try to manipulate God to do the things we want Him to do. We look at our lives and ask why I don’t good things happen to me.

However, we are getting this whole thing backwards just like the world is seeing these gods. We need to see it with the right perspective. God created us, and we are His creation. God is ready to bless us and use us, but not just so that God does what we say. However, we serve him and his wishes. We have to do checks to make sure we aren’t living out lives that are looking just to manipulate God to do our wishes but that we are aligning ourselves with His will and desires.
Spend some time praying that God shows you ways that you have been treating God in the ways like the people in this passage were treating their gods. It was all about them. Now pray that God allows you to turn that around and pray for God to show you His ways and how you can follow Him.

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