“O Lord other masters besides you have ruled us, but through you alone
we confess your name.” Is 26:13
Who
controls us? How are our decisions being
influenced? Whom do we follow in real
life? Whose style do we follow? Who is
our icon? What fascinates us? Who are we when we are in private? If you happen
to give some thought on these, and ask yourself such pointed questions and may
be more, then unquestionably the real image of yourself is displayed, and you know
what predominately holds you and who controls you. How often in the Bible we
find the Lord underscoring that there should be no God beside Him that we
should worship or look onto, and even warns us not to make gods in any forms
and shapes. Sadly most often for our convenient reason we interpret other gods
to the deities that resembles to the idols and religions only and not to some
of the habits that we aren’t free yet, and to the negative behaviours that has
captivated us.
This
above verse conveys that at one point of time there were masters besides Him
who ruled them, but then through HIM alone
they confessed and were delivered. For some people it is the power that rules them, and to some the position, to some the entertainments of the world, for some
the lies, for some the gossips, for some the infidelity in all forms, the list goes
on. Micah
2:1 says “Woe to those who scheme
iniquity, who work out evil on their beds! When morning comes they do it. For
it is in the power of the hands.” The
masters that rule you and the choice that you make to be ruled by them together
leads you the stage of wretchedness Rom 7:24. How
often we make meaning from what matters to us, and attach meaning to anything
important to us. If this is what we are then we better review who is ruling us
and who our masters are. Quite often it is seen that we do what we want to do
based on how it is going to benefit us, and then we use the word of the lord to
justify what we do. Sadly all have their own rationale to make others believe,
that it is from the Lord. It will be great if we try doing some spirituality
check and consider our ways as said in Haggai
1:7, and get closer to God in reconciliation and have our Lord Jesus as our
Master.
Micah 3:11 says “Her Leaders pronounce judgement for a
bribe, Her Priest instructs for a price And her prophets divine for money, yet
they lean on the Lord saying, Is not the Lord in our Midst? Calamity will not
come upon us” We see the prophet Micah speaking the strong words of the
Lord. I pray that we do not fall under the deceit thinking the Lord is our
master when actually we are controlled by different rulers that is leading us
to disaster. We are so familiar with the story of Samson in Judges, who vehemently
took the Lord for granted while he was under the captivity of sin. And we read
in Bible that the Lord departed from him, but he did not know that the Lord has
left him and was trying to perform as usual Judges 16:20. A personal review in
the light of His word, and conviction from the Holy Spirit will help us to see
that we confess Him alone. Micah 4:5 “Though
all the people walk each in the name of his god, as for us, we will walk in the name of the Lord our God
forever and ever.” What a strong
assertive statement is made here. Can we confess strongly that we will allow
our eternal Master our Lord Jesus Christ to rule us?
May
God Bless us as we continue in the journey to know Him more and have our Lord Jesus
Christ as our Master.
Blessings.
No comments:
Post a Comment