My prayer for you for today is that the idols of this
world will have no effect on your life as you serve a living and true God, in
Jesus name.
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Thessalonians 1:9-10
For
they keep talking about the wonderful welcome you gave us and how you turned
away from idols to serve the living and true God. And they speak of how
you are looking forward to the coming of God's Son from heaven—Jesus, whom God
raised from the dead. He is the one who has rescued us from the terrors of the
coming judgment.
Idols. Don’t you just love the show – idols? All the
glamour and excitement, the surprises and the sorrow, and all that leads up to
the final episode where the best idol is crowned. I must say Idols have shown
us some wonderful and really weird people, and people with truly amazing
talents. The world we live in today is world of idols, and out of all of them I
think that most people fall for fame and fortune. People always want to be
popular and have lots of money to throw around to impress other people and they
will stop at nothing to get there. We are so easily dominated by our own need
and concerns that we place God in the background as a last resort, when He
should be our first resort. We idolize people and we want to be like them, and
yet we should idolise Jesus and be more like Him. I love this statement in today’s scripture: “and how you turned away from idols to serve
the living and true God.”
My dear friend, let’s turn away from the things of this
world and seek the things of heaven. Let’s idolise Jesus and be excited about the
things He did and is still doing. Let us strive to be more like Him and seek
His presence in our lives, but above all let us worship Him in such a way that we
will create a “want” in other to do the same. Ask God today to break the idols
in your life and replace them with Himself, and as we place Him first in our
lives looking forward to the coming of
God's Son from heaven—Jesus, whom God raised from the dead. He is the one who
has rescued us from the terrors of the coming judgment, and He is the one
we should worship above all.
I don’t have many friends that will be brutally beaten, mocked
and punished, hanged on a cross out of love for me AND then die so that I can
live, AND after three days rise up from the dead to spend time with me making
sure I am still fine AND sits on the right hand of God arguing my case each
day, never giving up on me AND loves me unconditionally. Nope I don’t have many
of those friends, in fact only the one. Only Jesus and He calls me friend. He
is so AWESOME!
Have an awesome excited about Jesus day.
Cheers
