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THE WORSHIP OF GOD IN THE NEW LAND
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
Deuteronomy 12:1-18

2 Kings 21:10-15

 

“And I will forsake the remnant
of mine inheritance, and deliver

them into the hand of their enemies…”

 

THE WORSHIP OF GOD IN THE NEW LAND
 
The Lord gave instructions on how and where Israel was to worship Him in the new land. Moses had written all these and placed them before God’s people. Keeping in touch with God and obeying His commandments had to be the order of everyday life. God requires sanctity in worship.
 
God gave them statutes and judgments to observe in the land so that they may keep the sanctity of worship. Order could only come when they had specific laws to guide them. The Lord had declared the laws that He gave to Israel as superior and no nation had such laws as Israel had. Although modern lawyers deem God’s Law to be inferior, they have not observed that man-made laws are always subjected to change while the divine Law has remained the same since they were written. There was no way in which Moses could take up his leadership position without specific laws to guide him. This applied too to the leaders that came after him. The people had to have knowledge of these statutes so that they could obey and bring harmony and holiness to their dwellings. The worship of God also had to follow the specifications given by the Lord.
 
The people of the land that Israel was going to occupy were ignorant of the true God and did not worship Him. They were idolaters. Israel was commanded to destroy utterly all places of idol worship. These were in the nations that the Lord was going to drive away from the land of Canaan. The expression of that destruction shows that God did not want Israel to be entangled with the local people’s false religions and sin against Him. They were told to overthrow the altars, burn the groves, hew down the images of the gods and destroy their names out of that place. Any appearance of the false religions of the Canaanites was to be removed entirely.
 
Today, idolatry is still a common practice among many of the world’s religions. Keep away.
 
THOUGHT: Idolatry is blind superstition.

PRAYER: Father, may I always walk worthy of Thee in worship.

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