Biblical Principles Daily Devotionals Day 102

Why Do I Believe What I Believe

Day 102

Biblical principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

If the world views something as theirs to represent their love, remove it from your presence. God’s people are not to use the world’s things to worship God. It does not matter if the item is not evil in and of itself. Mountains, hills, green trees, altars, pillars and groves are not evil but if the world is using them in their worship, we should not. Do not use worldly attractions to attract people to God.

Deuteronomy 12:1-5, These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. ²Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: ³And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. ⁴Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God. ⁵But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

Practical - Works that apply Biblical principle:

If your worship is about making your flesh happy, beware.

Colossians 2:18-23, Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, ¹⁹And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. ²⁰Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, ²¹(Touch not; taste not; handle not; ²²Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? ²³Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.