There are no Jews, no Greeks etc Part 16

The thing that irks God and against which He cautions me is when I combine His way with the way of the world. There are many forms of idol worship, some I may convince myself is not truly idol worship, but is in fact a different way of doing things. There are many things that I can be fooled into believing are not idols under the guise that it is further doing God’s will, that I am worshipping or helping someone else worship and thereby completing God’s will, that God needs these things to reach out to the twentieth century, ie a chorus, a band equipped with instruments of all kinds and noises. I will convince myself that God doesn’t really mind all these things and if it helps inspire those in worship what is the problem? While it is true there are some truly wonderful things that man can come up with, I wonder if we are getting away from allowing God to truly inspire us and allowing other humans to do the inspiring. We see what another human sees, not what God wants us to see, we are inspired by another human’s thoughts, not to see God as God is, but as the other human sees God. We have effectively defined God not by our worship and relationship with God, but with someone else’s views on Him. We have made idols in our worship. God wants His worship purified of all idols, all things that will distract others from Him from the actual sitting at His feet, instead of observing someone else. When someone says, “Look what this person or that person is doing for God” while that may in fact be true, it also sounds like braggadocio, like the focus is on the person performing and what that person is saying rather than that person being used as God’s instrument humbly and honestly. While there are truly godly people who promote godly ideals, if I am not involved, or if my involvement in worship is merely watching then I am just being vicarious, and not being an active participant, some on the sidelines waiting to get into the ball game. In God’s eyes, though, I am a player, all my brethren are players and we all need to act as such. We all have a role to play, and when we come together, only God is the teacher, only God is our inspiration, only God can through His son show us how to move, where to go, how to live. It is comparable to the sacrifice of Abraham with Isaac. Surely that was a tough decision, but Abraham did as God asked not as he thought God would want him to do, and he never second guessed God.