Today is Monday, September 2, 2019 and here is your Daily Devo.
The cultural context of Elijah’s day is a reminder that no matter what century or culture you are in, one thing is for certain across the ages—humans will always worship, even if God isn’t the object of their worship and devotion. That’s why we see humans sacrificing their lives in worship of many different things today: hot-topic causes, sports, celebrities, politics, money, possessions, fashion, and so on. Though the modern Western mind sometimes thinks that worship was something done by ancient and ignorant people, we all end up in a worship-like state of something when we sacrifice our lives on the altar of that thing. This was what the people of Israel did during the time of Elijah, and it is what we do in very subtle ways today when we turn from God.
Spiritual disloyalty to God ultimately leads to spiritual drought and destruction. We constantly look for peace, love, and grace in things that are incapable of delivering those to us in a lasting sense. And when we do that, we end up worshiping the created instead of the Creator. It is only when our eyes are opened that we can clearly see that only the true God, and not the things He has made, is the source of all we need and desire.
Think about this: What are some of the things that attract a person’s loyalty in our current culture, thus compromising their loyalty to God? How can we show others that loyalty and faithfulness to God are better than these worldly loyalties?
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