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Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 9/21/12 - Don't Forget The Source!
"Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they sent a delegation to make peace with him because their cities were dependent upon Herod’s country for food. The delegates won the support of Blastus, Herod’s personal assistant, and an appointment with Herod was granted. When the day arrived, Herod put on his royal robes, sat on his throne, and made a speech to them. The people gave him a great ovation, shouting, “It’s the voice of a god, not of a m
an!” Instantly, an angel of the Lord struck Herod with a sickness, because he accepted the people’s worship instead of giving the glory to God. So he was consumed with worms and died. Meanwhile, the word of God continued to spread, and there were many new believers." Acts 12:20-24 NLT
One of the reasons we need to be ever vigilant in our recovery and our relationship with God is that the same blessings and gifts granted to us through our new found freedom can also be used by the enemy to trick us up. In the beginning we are so grateful to be free but the danger of a lack of vigilance during this continued freedom is that we can be manipulated into forgetting where the Source of our freedom comes from. Instead of acknowledging and affirming that our recovery comes from our relationship with God we start to allow ourselves to think that we are that source. The we are clean under our own power. We begin to forget where we came from, how desperate and close to death we were, how we suffered and start to think that we are somehow responsible for our current spiritual and physical condition.
King Herod found himself in the same position. When his people began to worship Him, rather than correct them and give honor to God, he "fell in love with his own press releases" as the saying goes, and it destroyed him. Many of us can find ourselves in the same boat if we're not careful. We must acknowledge that everything that we have and everything that we are comes from God and we are NOT Him. We are merely stewards of what He has given us, and the best stewards know who there Master is!
Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 9/21/12 - Don't Forget The Source!
"Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they sent a delegation to make peace with him because their cities were dependent upon Herod’s country for food. The delegates won the support of Blastus, Herod’s personal assistant, and an appointment with Herod was granted. When the day arrived, Herod put on his royal robes, sat on his throne, and made a speech to them. The people gave him a great ovation, shouting, “It’s the voice of a god, not of a m
an!” Instantly, an angel of the Lord struck Herod with a sickness, because he accepted the people’s worship instead of giving the glory to God. So he was consumed with worms and died. Meanwhile, the word of God continued to spread, and there were many new believers." Acts 12:20-24 NLT
One of the reasons we need to be ever vigilant in our recovery and our relationship with God is that the same blessings and gifts granted to us through our new found freedom can also be used by the enemy to trick us up. In the beginning we are so grateful to be free but the danger of a lack of vigilance during this continued freedom is that we can be manipulated into forgetting where the Source of our freedom comes from. Instead of acknowledging and affirming that our recovery comes from our relationship with God we start to allow ourselves to think that we are that source. The we are clean under our own power. We begin to forget where we came from, how desperate and close to death we were, how we suffered and start to think that we are somehow responsible for our current spiritual and physical condition.
King Herod found himself in the same position. When his people began to worship Him, rather than correct them and give honor to God, he "fell in love with his own press releases" as the saying goes, and it destroyed him. Many of us can find ourselves in the same boat if we're not careful. We must acknowledge that everything that we have and everything that we are comes from God and we are NOT Him. We are merely stewards of what He has given us, and the best stewards know who there Master is!
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