Not Having Any Other Gods Before Him! By Nanyamka Boyer
Good day to you my beloved brother or sister in our Mighty Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, our Mighty Fortress and Refuge from our storms in and of life. It is my prayer that this devotion finds you in good spirits and in good health you and and your family and that you continue to keep your eyes upon our Beloved, Mighty Savior, Lord and God, from where comes your help, as it is written in Psalm 121:1-2 "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD which made heaven and earth."
For your God loves you, has not forgotten you, is working on your behalf to change you and your life for the better, so you can be a testimony of His goodness and mercies upon your life unto others, especially unto the lost, as it is promised unto us that we overcame the devil, through the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony in Revelation 12:11 "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death."
And remember that all things work together for our good, those of us who love the Lord and have been called according to His purpose, as we are promised by our beloved brother Paul the Apostle in Romans 8:28 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose."
So the Lord makes all things that go on in our lives to work for our good, for us, in us and through us, as He is daily changing us in His image, as we yield to Him.
On this blessed day that our Lord has made, let us not only rejoice and be glad in it, but also remember to not have any other gods before Him. For remember that our God is a Jealous God, as we are commanded in Exodus 20:3-6 to not have any other gods before Him and that He is a jealous God. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments."
For we provoke Him to jealousy and anger, when we follow after other gods, including the worshipping of ourselves and putting others, things, false gods or idols and ourselves or what the flesh wants to do that is the opposite of God before Him. For as the Lord reminds me, so I can remind you that there is no other god beside Him, for He sits alone in Heaven as God in and before this whole Universe and world that He alone created, as we read in Isaiah 45:5-7 "I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." And in Isaiah 43:11-12, we read: "I, even, I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witness, saith the LORD, that I am God."
And I truly cannot understand why anyone would want to have another god in this world, instead of the Lord, as He alone is real, alive and well, feels what we feel, as He made us in His image and has feelings, fights for us, give us more than we could ever want and need to all of us humanity, including the unbeliever and makes and has made the way of escape from hell, through His Beloved and Only Begotten Son Jesus.
As He is the Son of Almighty God and had to give up His heavenly abode for us and offer His life or Precious blood, as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God the Father and Holy Spirit, so we can be forgiven by Him, reconciled and restored unto Him, be saved and not perish in a burning hell and later on in the Lake of Fire.
For remember that the life of all flesh is in the blood, as God the Father tells us in Leviticus 17:11 "For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul."
And this is also why as God's beloved creation. saint and sinner alike, we are forbidden to eat blood or any animal with the blood, as we read in Leviticus 17:12-14 "Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it, with dust. For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: thereof I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off."
So give honor to whom honor is due, which in this case is to our Beloved God, as we are also commanded to do in His Word and do not eat anything with the blood lest you die, as the Lord commands us and warns us about our impeding death if we do.
And that includes medium rare of rare cooked meats, as they have blood. For remember that the Lord will not be mocked and that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God, as the Apostle Paul tells us in Galatians 6:7 "Be not deceived: God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." And in Hebrews 10:31 "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."
For whether we believe in Him or not, as God Almighty, He is God and will always be God and our Loving Heavenly Father, who is in control of our lives. Blessed be His holy name!
Go with God, have a blessed, peaceful and joyous week, remembering that the Lord loved you before you even loved Him, as the Apostle John tells us in 1 John 4:19 "We love Him, because He first loved us." And has always been faithful to you and I, even when you and I are not faithful to Him. So don't ever forget Him nor put other gods before Him, for He is your Heavenly Father, your Breath of Life, Sweet Lover of your soul and Source of Life, who never leaves you, especially when you need Him the most.
And not the blessings that He has put in our lives, for they are just reminders in our lives of His love, goodness and mercy toward us, His most valued possession in this world. So thank Him, love on Him and bless His holy name, for He is worthy!!
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