DAY 6: Wellspring Corrupted!

Well this is day 6 out of 3 months of simply growing up into a man of God

This morning I'm reading in Judges. I finished up chapter ten,

This hit me really hard

Judges 10: 6  Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They worshiped the Baals and the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh and did not worship Him.


I really thought deep into this one and it rings me forward to Romans 1


Romans 1:28 And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.


Now don't get me wrong I don't see this as saying God wanted them to do 
what was evil in His sight, but instead He allowed them to. Clearly this was 
a choice of theirs. They decided to begin worshipping Idols 
although God clearly said not to
in fact God even told the Israelites in the past not to even
be involved with those who do worship the other idols


but the Israelites, after all God had done and brought them through, at some point
lost their worthwhile. They lost their fire to worship Him and instead figured
they'd try out "new things" 


They began joining in with the things this world does
and not all of the things this world does are BAD THINGS,
but when good things become god they become idols
therefore making them a bad thing

I don't think Israel set out to lose their passion for God

I believe that they were slowly but surely seduced 

seduced by the things of this world

slowly they began to put God on a backburner of their hearts

giving room for other things to come into their hearts

Proverbs 4:23

Guard your heart, above all else, for it is the wellspring of life

Their wellsprings of life had become corrupt

and they had walked away from God

and how often this happens in our lives

sometimes for hours

sometimes for day

We aren't careful to guard our hearts

with scripture

with faith

and with power

We get seduced

we sometimes get so seduced

 that we find ourselves falling away from all the things of God

to go try something "new"

become obsessed with things

that we ought not obsess over

and God is a jealous God

not an envious God

but a Jealous God

He is worthy 

of worship

in fact

our worship is DUE to Him

when we allow ourselves to obsess over earthly things

what we say to the creator 

is simply

"God You are not worthy of my worship

but this thing that you have created is"

. . .well ain't that silly. . .

I feel like I need to stop here

and pick up tomorrow

this is gonna be a two part thing.

don't worry

THERES HOPE FOR THE SEDUCED!!!!