Exodus 20:3 NKJV
"You shall have no other gods before Me.
Exodus 20:3 NLT
"You must not have any other god but me.
Exodus 20:3 AMPC
You shall have no other gods before or besides Me.
My friend met me in the supermarket and gleefully announced that she had bought a Buddha for her garden - one which lit up!
I replied: "Don't expect me to be excited about that! What's wrong with our God? Look where all these foreign gods have got us in this country!" Her son agreed with me. She replied: "Perhaps you're right."
The strange fascination that people have with foreign gods amazes me.
We have the most Wonderful Human Embodiment of Divine Unconditional love displayed in Jesus Christ and His Cross, yet we willingly flirt with false teachings and idolatry - flouting the first and most fundamental of the 10 commandments.
This is what we've treated as rubbish:
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that anyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life - the message of the Gospel in a nutshell.
Why is that considered so boring and mundane these days - something to be discarded like an old worn out pair of shoes.
We should remember the tough terrain over which those shoes trod and triumphed ....
Those shoes of the Gospel of Peace need to be repaired and re-heeled so that the message is taken out into a lost and chaotic generation.
We don't need more diversity and inclusivity, but we need the exclusivity of Jesus who proclaimed Himself to be The Way, The Truth and The Life.... and proved it by rising from the dead.
We don't need other gods, just the One True God that has made us great.
Our late Queen knew this and took the title "Defender of THE faith" seriously - I wonder what has been unleashed on this land now that the king defends multiple faiths?
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