Exodus 20:3 AMPC
You shall have no other gods before or besides Me.
Deuteronomy 4:35 AMPC
To you it was shown, that you might realise and have personal knowledge that the Lord is God; there is no other besides Him.
Isaiah 45:5
I am the Lord, and there is no other;
apart from me there is no God.
I will strengthen you,
though you have not acknowledged me.
Isaiah 45:22 AMPC
Look to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
Let's be very clear - there are no other gods beside the Lord.
Anything or anyone that purports to be God, apart from Jesus, is a counterfeit and cheap imitation.
It's a dead end.
Yet mixing faiths is very popular in our contemporary world.
You can see famous communicators on YouTube "hedging their bets" with emblems of many different religions tattooed on their bodies.
However, the Lord will not share our allegiance with another.
I may say that I worship only the Lord, but what is my life saying?
Do other loves vie for my devotion?
Where is my passion and attention focussed?
Do other "gods" (selfishness, ambition, desire for wealth, position and fame) try to divert me from my pure love for Jesus?
I need to keep a check on my spiritual health.
God is jealous for my singular devotion to Him.
Much like a husband desires his wife to be faithful to him, so the Lord wants ny first, unrivalled love.
He knows that when I put Him first, everything else will fall into place:
Revelation 1:8 AMPC
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord God, He Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty (the Ruler of all).
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