February 16

Scripture 1 Samuel 5: 1-5

Would the real God please stand up!!! I just love this passage of scripture. It gives me a thrill every time I read it. The Philistines had taken the ark of God and had put it in the house of their god Dagon. When they arose the next morning they found that Dagon had fallen on his face before the ark of God.

So, the people took Dagon and put him back in his place again. Funny isn't it that a god needed puny humans to lift him up from the place where he had fallen. Did you also notice where he had fallen? On his face before the ark of God. They arose early again the next morning and where was Dagon? You guessed it!!! Same place as before, but this time his head and both hands were cut off.

It makes no sense to me at all why anyone in their right mind would worship something that they themselves created. Something that has no life, no feeling, no breath, nothing. I often wonder how the people must have felt when they came into the house of their God and realized that he had come face to face with the one and only true God. The God of Israel. You would tend to think that they would have turned to God and forsaken the worship of idols. But they didn't.

Who are you worshipping today? Is it some silly idol, or the true and living God? There is one God and one God only. Make sure you worship Him and him alone.




Tear all idols down today
And worship God alone
He is the one true God
Who sits upon His throne
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