Monday Reading: Exodus 20:4-6
Key Verse: Exodus 20:5
5 You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I Jehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those that hate me,
Devotion:
There is one law that is acknowledged as being one of the worst and that is high treason. For this people will get punished more than other crimes and not so long ago were put to death for it. If we have that sort of punishment for a crime against King or country then should we really expect anything less for a crime against our King, Jesus Christ? God has warned us from the beginning that there is a punishment waiting for anyone who chooses to hate Him because that is just as we see high treason. God has always made sure that we know what constitutes hate against Him and has given us the second commandment written in stone so that we will remember it.
Yet people still chose to forget about what was written down and call upon every law that they can to try and get out of having to pay for the crime of working against God. Indeed we now have laws around the world that say that we should not tell others that they are breaking God’s laws! Man is trying what he can to bury God’s laws just so that he can do what he wants to do. For those of us who believe in God, we do not have a problem with making sure that we strive to keep the commandments, but for those who hate His laws there will always be ways that they make themselves look righteous. How can we expect to make our own laws and be right just because we keep them? The original law is God’s Law and there can be no other to replace it because that would be man’s own making. This is the exact reason why God made sure we knew His laws up front...
God wants us to know that the punishment we heap upon ourselves is not nice; but it is us that bring it upon ourselves because we want our own ways instead of God’s ways. Keep God in the picture, keep Him in control.
Points to Ponder:
Do you make your own rules?
Do you favour your rules or God’s rules?
