I know I have mentioned it before several times, but it just simply amazes me that Israel continued to worship the brazen serpent even into the days of king Hezekiah! They had even given the idol a name, Nehushtan. Do you find it odd that Israel took the things God meant for their own good and turned them into wickedness? They even went as far as to forget the God who gave them the serpent in the first place! Surely we will never do that, right?
Well, as it turns out we tend to hold our traditions and ceremonies higher than the God we seek to worship. Some recite the Lord's prayer and the Apostles creed in worship and others observe the Sacraments every week. Are these things evil? No. But we should never become functionally idolatrous in these things. What God gives us is for our good, not for us to twist into idolatry and forgetting the very God these things represent.
I hope and pray that you all had a wonderful day of rest in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jay
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