"Who Is Your God?"

  James spoke: "You believe that God is one, You do well; the demons also believe and shudder." (2:19) One God believed upon by man and demons. Maybe the question is, "who is your god that you believe?"

  A persons god is what he/she cares about the most! What a person prizes most highly! What a person serves and extends themselves on behalf of! What a person does costly things for! What a person has at the center of their thinking when they must make major decisions! That's a persons god.

  Looking in the historical past, the Romans worshiped Mars as their god of war. Today, we wouldn't find people falling down a the feet of this god but is he really dead? Look at the security of a nation that believes in its war machine to deliver us from any attacks. There was another god called Bacchus, the god of wine, drunkenness and sensuality. Is that god dead? How many give their lives for the party spirit, the drinking arena and pursuing all types of sensuality? What about the goddess Aphrodite? The goddess of sex? She was adored by the Romans and bowed down and worshipped. We quip at such silliness but then, is she dead today? Look at the ads on radio and television. Look at our programs that are constantly tainted with the ideas of sex and sexuality especially aimed at our young people. We find the goddess Venus, the god of beauty and youth. What do we find today? All the reconstruction of the body to enhance, to regain youth and it is a multi-billion dollar industry. Is she dead?

  God spoke to Israel that there will be no other gods before Me! Jesus spoke that one cannot serve two masters. Paul instructed the church at Philippi that there are false brethren who are enemies of the cross because their god is their own appetite and they glory in their shame because their mind is set on earthly things (Phil. 3:19). Maybe its more prevalent that what we want to admit. Maybe we need to sit down, examine our lives and as Joshua did in days of old make a stand that we must choose this day who we will serve (Joshua 24:15). Who is your god/God?