Creating other gods

by Rapha Abreu·December 22, 2023·2 min read

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The Lord instructs us several times that He should be the Only One worshiped, above anything else, because He is the Only God. This is not because He simply desires exclusivity. It goes far beyond that thought. Thinking like this makes it seems like God pleads for attention and needs us. But that is not it.

One God for all

The Father desires to be first in our lives, but He does not instruct us to worship Him solely out of a desire for exclusivity, as if His power depended on it. He calls us to have Him as the Only God because it is not necessary for us to look for something elsewhere. He is already the true source of everything.

He is complete, whole, unique, and incomparable. Why would we worship other gods? Why would we create other gods?

Just as the disciple Peter said in John 6:68: “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”

If He already possesses everything and gives us all these wonders through His grace and love, why would we run to other gods?

In the past, it was common to hear about a god for each subject. One god for prosperity, another for health, another to guarantee joy…

But there is a God who owns gold and silver, who has healing and renewal within Himself, who guarantees us the full joy of His sweet presence. Nothing stays the same when He is present; why not just worship Him?

Focus on Him

“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other…”
Matthew 6:24

The Lord knows that anything can steal our attention. He understands that we can turn any place, object, person, relationship, or dream into our gods.

To reach the Father, we need to be focused on Him. That’s why He calls us to remove any obstacle from our path and take steps directly towards Him, concentrating on His grace and His word.

If we trade Him for trivial things, moments that quickly fade away, the path becomes blurry for us, and it’s challenging to understand where we should go. We cannot afford to despise God. He has never abandoned us. However, we so often waste time on wandering paths far from the Father, without finding what we really need because everything we need is in Him.

Take time out of your day to listen to the Lord, to follow His word, His sweet voice calling us near, and don’t let your dreams and desires become, in your mind, greater than God, because nothing has power above Him.