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This chapter
gives us a very honest look at humanity.
I love the middle section that talks about a human being who plants a tree. The worldly rain waters it. Humans tend it. Eventually human beings cut it down. Part of it they cut up to throw in a fire and
bake bread. The other part they cut and
shape into a god. They then bow down and
worship it, thinking it has some special power.
This is a
hysterical thought! If the wood had
special powers, why would it let itself get chopped down, cut up, and
burned? In converse, it the wood that
was burned had no special power, why do people think that the wood that wasn’t
burned has any different power?
This sounds
very common sense. However, we are all
guilty of the same thinking. How many of
us worship the very money that we slave over to earn! How many of us worship the cars and clothing
that we spend our own money to possess?
How many of us worship our own children, kids that we brought into
existence? The truth is that human
beings excel at worship that which we make ourselves. We love to worship the fruit of our efforts. We should be worshipping a God who can create
out of nothing; we end up worshipping a god of our own creation.
As I said
yesterday, the neat part about this is that God knows this. He gets us, even
though we sin. He provides redemption
for us. It’s not like our sinfulness
catches Him off-guard. He redeems even
as He plans to judge our sins. He can
judge us because He also knows our redemption.
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