Tuesday Reading: Jeremiah 10:14-16
Key Verse: Jeremiah 10:14
14 Every man is stupid for lack of knowledge; every refiner is put to shame by the graven image; for his molten image is a lie, and no breath is in them.
Devotion:
No matter how much we think we can achieve or succeed in doing things we will never match what God has already done. Through His creation He has shown us His power and His supremacy. Through His ways He continues to show us that He is our Living God and that He is all powerful. Everything we attain to is to nothing in comparison to His works!
We have done some pretty amazing things – the human race that is. We have made it possible to transplant a heart or other essential organ from one man to another. We have made it possible to fly to the other side of the earth within a day. We have made it possible to create machines that are so small that we cannot see them without the aid of a microscope... but still we fall short of doing things right! No matter how far we advance we always seem to take backward steps when walking toward righteousness. The more we advance in science the more we fall short of God’s glory. This does not mean that we should give up our scientific ways and ask God for everything. He has given us the wisdom to do these things. He has given us the minds to conquer such science. All He wants is that we do follow Him first.
The quicker we make advances the quicker we find out the faults in the science man assumes. The quicker we find answers the more we build up against ourselves and the more we uncover the truth about God. Yet so many people still refuse to believe because they are baffled by the science and are confused by the knowledge required to understand such things. God’s ways have been the same straightforward, truthful, simple ways from the beginning of time. We are the ones that seem to make them seem difficult because we don’t want to believe that something so good is so simple. We see the work that is involved with all the science and we assume that more should be involved with God because it is so much better! It is vanity – God’s ways are good and they are simple enough for everyone to understand.
Points to Ponder:
How many scientific theories do you know?
How much of God’s Word do you know?
