“Rejecting God”
BIBLE READING:
1Kings
10-12
One of
the main themes of the Bible is the fact that there is nothing that can
separate us from the love of God. In
fact, there are numerous passages that remind us that God will never leave us
or forsake us (Deuteronomy 31.8; Matthew 28.20; Hebrews 13.6). Paul even goes into great detail to explain
to us God’s ever present, unlimited love for us.
“Who shall separate us from
the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine,
or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are
being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be
slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers,
nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor
anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God
in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:35-39)
There is
nothing that we could ever do that will separate us from God’s love that he has
for us, yet we can turn our back on it.
The love is still there, the arms still outstretched to grasp us; yet,
we can, we have and we will at times…reject it.
Our reading today takes us down the dark path of King Solomon, a man who
once had it all, wealth, wisdom and the ever-abiding presence of God. However, at this point of Solomon’s life, he
has chosen to reject God’s love and turn his attention to other things.
“For when
Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart
was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his
father…Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and did not wholly
follow the LORD, as David his father had done. Then Solomon built a high place
for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the
Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. And so he did for all his foreign
wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods. And the LORD was angry
with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of
Israel, who had appeared to him twice and had commanded him concerning this
thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the
LORD commanded.” (1 Kings 11:4-10)
Church, if it
was possible for the world’s wisest man to turn away and reject the
outstretched arms of God to accept the evil ways of this world, we too are
subject to fall. But remember, God is
always there! He is always ready to
accept us back. Let’s not allow
ourselves to get so far that we cannot find our way back.
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