Dec 27, 2018
At this I fell at his
feet to worship him. But he said to me, "Don't do that! .. Worship
God!" Rev 19:10
Don't worship
Christmas, family, life--only worship Jesus! Everything else is idolatry.
What do you say you love?
The phrase is used so often, we’ve lost much of its true
meaning. People love everything. We love coffee. We love
chocolate. We love Disney. We love reading. We love
our new car. We love that outfit. We love country music. (Okay – that was
going too far!)
If you’re like me, it probably is used in your language way
too much.
This time of year, it’s used even more. We love Christmas. We love time with family. We love being off from work and school. We love just about everything that comes
along. It kind of diminishes the
sentiment when we tell our spouse or kids that we love them too. Or when we tell God we love Him.
In this amazing final scene of John’s revelation, he is
overwhelmed by the worship & celebration of heaven. It is by FAR the best moment John has ever
witnessed (after all, John wasn’t there to witness the resurrection). Like a “love” fest, John just wants to get
involved in the worship, and the Angel (maybe Angel Gabriel) who is the
messenger that’s been showing John the story is standing there. John falls to his face to honor the
story-teller, but the angel will have NONE OF IT. “Love God – don’t love me!” The angel doesn’t want John to make ANYTHING
BUT GOD the target of his love and worship.
This scene shows the danger of our hearts to make an idol
out of anything – including an angel in heaven.
We are so driven to love someone or something, that we’ll pick anything
pleasing to us. How ironic (and sad)
that idolatry was seen in the 3rd Chapter of Genesis, and still is
the temptation in the 3rd to last Chapter of Revelation. It’s still a problem for us – and needs to be
stopped.
Maybe it’s time to take back the love. Reserve it for
Jesus. Show your love for Jesus by
GIVING love to your spouse and kids and family.
But truly love God alone.
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