Do you worship false gods?

July 6, 2007

2Ch 25:14-15 KJV
(14) Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
(15) Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?

How silly is this? Amaziah, one of the kings of Judah, after he has a war with Edom and wins, goes to the town of Seir and takes their gods home. Now, to take them to melt them down for the value of the gold or silver would make sense, but to take them home and worship them? If they could not protect their own people why worship them? You obviously have the superior God on your side. Why would you risk angering the God you follow to worship something else.

I would like to say that we as humans are better, but in my own experience I can not say that I am. About 3 years after I got saved, I got delivered from smoking. I was never a heavy smoker, I smoked a pipe, and did it mostly to relax myself. About 8 years later I got laid off from my job. I lost my focus of God and the first thing that I wanted to was do some thing that would help me relax to have some peace. I was burning money that I did not have to be honest. In the end God got me where I needed to be for a job, I just lost my focus. I turned back to the gods that God had defeated in my life.

How about you? When things are not going the way that you want them to, do you follow back to bad habits or addictions from your past? If God delivered you from them in the past, why are you going back and worshiping them? When you get upset, unsettled or hurt, it is time to go back the the one that defeated them in the first place.