What Are We Following?

 

Today's verse is Mark 7:7

Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. 

    Let us, therefore, pay attention and so examine ourselves! Do we truly worship God, or have we taken the words and commandment of men and followed them? For over a hundred years, God had warned Israel, that there would come a day, when they would seek him, but he would not be found, and King Zedekiah discovered that day when he sent two servants to Jeremiah, and he told them that choosing life, would be to choose to surrender to Babylon. Has the West, those that were once known as followers of that Name above any other, by which we must be saved, come to this same dreadful state? I do not know. But this I do know, the Church is still present in this world, and we still are commissioned to preach the Gospel to every Nation. So, let us follow our Saviour’s counsel, and buy of me [Jesus] gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich: and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of the nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. So that, till he comes for us to call us home, the world might hear of the Redemption found only in Jesus Christ, that they might avoid seeing the Wrath of God. Amen.

To God be the Glory

Scott

Today’s reading is Judges 8, Acts 12, Jeremiah 21, Mark 7

Tomorrow’s reading will be Judges 9, Acts 13, Jeremiah 22, Mark 8