December 9, 2012 Who's Your God?

Who’s Your God? 2 Kings 1:2-4 Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers, saying to them, “Go and consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury.” 3 But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?’ 4 Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!’” SAMARIA is the northern kingdom of the Jewish people, the kingdom called Israel. The ancestors of these people came out of Egypt, strained for 40 years in the Sinai Desert and entered the Promised Land. They saw and heard the power of God’s Word on his people generation after generation. Yet Ahaziah determines disdains the Living God and consults a non-existent, dead God. God’s judgment on him is sure and swift as he dies in his sin. What do you do, Christian? Do you consult dead gods of philosophy, self-help books, or take-the-next-pill remedy? The means of man are not the means of life’s eternal answers regardless of how hard we try to fit the temporary solutions into our eternal needs. In need of healing or help, we turn every which way but to the Way. Then we wonder why we’re dying inside. Why do we disdain Life Himself as our answer? Do we think there’ something new in the universe? Do you keep the Bible closed on the table because you think, “That’s not my God in the Bible.” Think again. It’s True! God’s eternal way is the only way.