“You shall have no other gods before Me.” Exodus 20:3 (NKJV)
One of the ten commandments of God is that we are to have no other gods before the only One True God. It’s understandable that God gave that commandment back in Old Testament times; the people went and worshipped a golden calf when Moses was up on the mountain hearing from God.
Of course, that wouldn’t seem to come into play today. We don’t worship idols, the sun god, the moon god, or a golden calf. We don’t worship media personalities, politicians, prominent preachers, wealth, and influence. It’s not like we have a popular TV show trying to find the next American idol. Is it?
When we are sick we don’t take the doctors’ word first and foremost before we talk to God, do we? When we think we need more money, we don’t go to a bank, credit cards, friends, seek a better job, or some such things before God. Do we? We don’t have more faith in our own abilities before God, do we? We don’t accept what society thinks before we check into what God thinks. Do we?
Well… maybe we put a few things before God. Does that really imply that we don’t believe in God? Maybe we just have more faith in other things. Maybe if the other things don’t work out, we can go to God.
Of course, that might be putting God as a last resort instead of putting God first.
Just a thought.