Saturday 1 Jun 2013

Saturday Reading: Habakkuk 2:18

Key Verse: Habakkuk 2:18
18  What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

Devotion:
What profit would you ever get out of making a statue that you could bow down before and worship? Well, if you are the one that made it for someone else then you may stand to make a tidy profit because your outlay may be very small in comparison to the spiritual need of the final recipient. The person looking for some spiritual fulfilment is looking for something far greater than the simple physical – but you may have been able to make the physical for little or no cost to yourself.

What gain do you get out of making that small (or large) statue? If you put aside the monetary gain then what is left? Many people put their faith and trust in the physical things that surround them and because of that they want something physical to bolster their faith; throughout history man has always sought physical proof for things so that he would have an explanation that he can stick with. God is not limited by the physical and is certainly not going to provide physical proof for ever demand we make. Instead God requires faith from us and that faith is the belief in the unseen or the unexplainable.

How could we ever explain a virgin birth? How could we ever explain God making everything out of nothing? That is simply placing physical limits on a God who is not limited to anything or by anything. There are not going to be perfect scientific explanations for everything that we go through, even when we go through them in the physical world. God wants us to have faith that He is able to do things beyond what we can explain and to have faith that He is willing to do those things just because of His love toward us.

God alone is able to do things beyond our explanations; don’t expect something we can make to be able to do the same as God! Making a bow and arrow means that I may be able to kill something to eat but it does not mean that I will be able to take on a fighter aeroplane or that I should be able to shoot round corners. If we make things, we are the creator. God created us and He alone has all power to control our environment that we live in. Trust in Him and Him alone for everything and you will never be disappointed.

Points to Ponder:
What intelligent artefacts have you made?

How did God make man?