Who Will You Serve

Question: How long will you waver between two opinions?  I think everyone has to make this choice at some time or other.  The Lord said this at one point in His ministry, read Luke 16:13, “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”   Now think about idol worship, there were many people into idol worship in bible times and it still goes on today.  Many people idolize other people or material things or money or vehicles, sometimes it may be their own kids or their spouses or someone else in their family.  It may be a sports person or a TV or movie personality.  

In Elijah’s day the Israelites worshiped Baal and Asherah so Elijah had a showdown with these prophets on Mount Carmel and he said this in 1 Kings 18:21, “And Elijah came to all the people, and said, ‘How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.’ But the people answered him not a word.”

Joshua made a similar statement in Joshua 24:14-15, “Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

God said that He would have no other gods before Him.  In our day many still worship gods, maybe they have different names, but they can still be idols or gods and God won’t tolerate them if we are believers, so be careful who or what may be an idol in your life.  Think of this, an idol can be anything that you put ahead of the Lord in your life!!   Personally, I think people can make an idol out of their cell phones as they spend hours and hours on them while ignoring real friends and family, carrying them around everywhere they go even taking them to bed with them completely devastated if they can’t find their cell phone at any given time.  

My kids and grandkids come to the house at times and different ones are constantly on their iPhones, either talking, texting, playing games or watching or reading something on their iPhone.  Just try to ground someone from their iPhone and you will have a battle on your hands.  You want to see someone throw a fit just try to take their iPhone from them.  Or how many have iPads that they use like their cell phone constantly?  I am talking about believers and non-believers alike.  If believers took half the time praying and reading the Bible and spending time with the Lord as they do on their cell phones, iPads or some of the other devices they own, I would say that there would be many more spiritual giants around with far more spiritual discernment and far less believers being devastatingly deceived.

I know this will rub many people the wrong way and they will no doubt be offended but I am not trying to offend anyone, I am trying to get some people to see the error of their ways.  I know the truth hurts but you will need to hear it for yourself to be set free.  Check out John 8:31-32, “Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, ‘If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.’”

My prayer is that you will be encouraged and helped while reading this Tidbit, and you will decide not to be offended but to receive the truth and act on the truth, for it will set you free.  May the good Lord bless you and yours and may you all have a super day!!  Don’t forget to thank and praise the Lord for He is worthy!!