Our idols, my idols, determine our, my walk. Do I place what I love on the mantle for all to see and bow for all to see, or is God there? Is doing what is popular our idol? Are we so worried about what people consider the church to be and try to modernize it so that people feel comfortable? Is that our idol? Or what of our leadership? Do we follow whatever a pastor or preacher says to the law, because if we do, they too have become an idol. And as Jeremiah pointed out in Jer 12:10, pastors destroy a church by their misdeeds and will lead their people into the wilderness. God will deal with me and with my brethren if we choose to make idols that we think represent God, even if we have the best of intentions. He will not tolerate that in us, as Jesus says in Matthew 21:41, in the parable of the vineyard. God will give what He has given to us to others who work for Him and worship Him. And He will treat us as the congregation of satan in Rev 3:9, and we will be marked as sinful.
But those that follow Him, He will make us glad to be in Him. We will sing and rejoice as David says in Psalms 87:7 and again in Psalms 137:5. We will know whose we are and where we belong as His. We will be one, because we know that God doesn’t want us to be divided. (1 Cor 12:25) We must treat each other with brotherly love, praying always for peace that we be blessed as His children. (1 Thes 4:9; Ps 122:6) The LORD sets His watchmen for us, as He did in Isaiah 62:6, so that we like sheep are not scattered but know where and who our master is and because He cares enough to call us to Him (Isaiah 43:4)
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