June 6, 2023 … No Idols …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 157 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Chris Tomlin and the group Elevation Worship singing … Yahweh … poignantly, yet powerfully singing of not allowing anything to come before the Name of Yahweh in worship. 

Modern Day Idols ... 

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Highlight Passage: … Exodus 20:4 [NLT] … 

4 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea.   

… No Idols … worship only God!!                  

                         

Highlight Passage (Context): … Exodus 20:1-6 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… God’s law to put no other God’s before the LORD.                                           .                     

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 115:4-8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s psalmist sings of avoiding idol worship of any kind.     

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 42:8 [NLT] … 

8 I am the LORD; that is My name!  I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share My  praise with carved idols.

… God, to His people thru Isaiah, the Prophet, showing that God will not share His glory with idol worshippers.     

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 10:14 [NLT] … 

14 So, my dear friends, flee from the worship of idols.. 

… God, thru Isaiah, calls on God’s faithful, to trust and wait on God’s ways and for the LORD to renew their strength as they (we) follow the Lord.  

Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:5 [NLT] … 

5 So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world. 

… Paul strongly exhorts and instructs fellow Christians to avoid anything that becomes an idol in their (our) lives.

Reference Passage: … 1John 5:21 [NLT] … 

21 Dear Children, keep away from ANYTHING that might take take God’s place in your hearts.. 

… God, thru John, warns His children to avoid anything that can take the place of God in their (our) hearts. 

                                                                                                                                   

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Kenneth Peterson… AT THIS LINK …  wrote about what we might choose to visit or see on a family vacation, … reporting some of the bizarre choices that we could choose to see, like the National Mustard Museum in Wisconsin or the Barbed Wire Museum in Texas. 

  

The point from the ODB entry today was that we get to choose what we desire to see/hear in our lives; and for Christians, God’s word (see Scriptures above) is clear that our priority choices must ALWAYS avoid ANYTHING that promotes our sin nature and dishonors God in any way.  

Today, my fellow Christian readers, we will make choices to honor or dishonor our God in what we choose to see or hear.  So, I pray we follow God’s call to prioritize only those choices which honor and glorify our Lord.  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for pointing me away from anything which dishonors You in any way. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to choose to see/hear only those things which honor and glorify You, Lord.  … AMEN 

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