Thought for February 4

 History:

  • 1555: John Rogers burned at the stake for his faith during reign of Bloody Mary
  • 1794: French National Convention abolishes slavery
  • 1861: Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederacy
  • 1928: Manche Masemola is killed by her parents for worshipping in the Anglican Church in South Africa
  • 1945: Yalta Conference--Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin
  • 1957: First portable electric typewriter goes on sale
  • 1969: John Madden becomes coach of the Raiders
  • 1970: "Patton" premiers with George C Scott
  • 1974: Patty Hearst kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army
  • 2004: Facebook launched from Harvard dorm room
  • Born: Charles Lindbergh, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Byron Nelson, Rosa Parks, Dan Quayle, Lawrence Taylor, Clint Black
  • Died: Adolphe Sax, Karen Carpenter, Liberace, Ossie Davis, Florence Green [last surviving veteran of WWI dies in 2012 at age 110]
Thought:
Reading and weeping over Jeremiah 2:11-13 this morning. "Has a nation changed gods, when they were not gods?" Here God makes an amazing observation. In fact in 2:10, he says for us to look around and see if there has ever been a nation that changed gods. He invites Judah to look at Kedar--Cyprus. Interesting that Kedar was the 2nd son of Ishmael. So God says to Judah--even look at the descendants of Ishmael, they don't change gods. And notice, God adds, "even when they are not gods." Nations who follow false gods do not change their gods. Now look at Judah--you have the only true and living God and yet you changed gods. And look at the trade. You abandoned the God who brought you out of slavery in Egypt, who led and provided for you in the wilderness, who gave you the Promised Land [2:5-8] And now you have gods who do not profit you. 

So what is God's conclusion--you have committed two evils: you have forsaken God the fountain of living waters and made yourselves broken cisterns that cannot hold water. Look around. Look around our city, our State our nation and the world. What do you see? Changed gods. But maybe I should look closer to home--what about Larry. Are we chasing gods that we made---careers, houses, cars, wealth, fame, position, power, entertainers, athletes, teams, pleasure, travel, vacations. Gods that cannot satisfy. Do we sound like Mick Jagger--"I can't get no, satisfaction." So we go after more and more stuff. A Tik Tok personality is paid millions to be an influencer so that we buy stuff we do not need--broken cistern. We wonder why generations do not value church--but we have told them games are more important. 

Lord help us live like we believe You and You alone are worthy of our lives, our attention, our praise, our worship. You gave us an assignment. 

Blessings
Larry


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