Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - When Your God Breaks - #8348

Monday, August 31, 2009

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Folks used to look at the sky and say, “The sun’s revolving around the earth.” They were wrong. Copernicus showed us that the earth revolves around the sun, and we should be glad. The other way around…we’d all be dead!

I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and it is easy to be wrong about what revolves around what; not in the big universe out there, but in the personal universe of our personal lives. Your sun is whatever is your bottom line—your deciding factor in how you choose what you’re going to do. Many will say, “Oh, God’s my #1. He’s the sun in my universe.” Or maybe not. Because our actions often prove that someone or something else is really the most important factor in our choices: money, a person, a business, a goal, getting love or approval, escaping our pain, getting our way. And whatever is your bottom line, that’s your god.

In spite of the fact that #1 in the Ten Commandments is, “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3 ). The ancient Philistines learned that when they captured the Ark of God in the temple of their god Dagon. But each morning, they kept finding Dagon’s image fallen on his face…and finally with “his head and hands…broken off” (1 Samuel 5:1-5 ). They couldn’t move fast enough to give back the Ark of the real God. No matter how much you think you need your other god, you can be sure it will eventually break on you. Maybe it already has.

Jonah gets the final word. He said, “Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs” (Jonah 2:8 ).

This radio program references: Exodus 20:3 ; 1 Samuel 5:1-5 ; Jonah 2:8