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Scripture Meditation No. 1682
AATHAVAN – Monday, 15.09.2025
“You sons of mankind,
how long will My honour be treated as an insult? How long will you love what is
worthless and strive for a lie?” (Psalm 4:2, NASB)
In today’s verse, the
Word of God gives two names to the things of this world: “worthless” and
“false.” The Holy God asks: How long will you love what is worthless and
pursue what is false, thus dishonouring My glory?
Failing to give God
the glory that belongs to Him is itself dishonouring Him. The importance we
give to worldly things and to God cannot be the same. When the question arises—worldly
things or God—we must choose to honour God. If not, we bring Him dishonour.
Often in this world,
we fail to give God the priority due to Him, just to please others. This may be
for selfish gain or out of fear. But if we honour God above circumstances and
people, He will surely not let us be put to shame.
In the wilderness, “Now
when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the
people assembled around Aaron and said to him, ‘Come, make us a god who will go
before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we
do not know what happened to him.’” (Exodus 32:1, NASB). Out of fear of the
people, Aaron made a golden calf and declared, “This is your god, Israel,
who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
Not only that, “Now
when Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of it; and Aaron made a
proclamation and said, ‘Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.’ So, the next
day they got up early, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace
offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to engage in
lewd behaviour.” (Exodus 32:5–6, NASB)
In the same way, when
we give our worship—meant for God—to others or to worldly things, we dishonour
God and are left exposed. About Aaron’s act it is written: “Now when Moses
saw that the people were out of control—for Aaron had let them get out of
control to the point of becoming an object of ridicule among their enemies—”
(Exodus 32:25, NASB). God Himself declares: “I am the LORD, that is My name;
I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to idols.” (Isaiah 42:8,
NASB).
Idols are not just
carved images; they include anything that takes priority over God in our lives.
Greed itself is idolatry. As Paul warns: “For this you know with certainty,
that no sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, which amounts to an
idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.” (Ephesians
5:5, NASB).
Satan sows greed in
our hearts in order to strip away the garment of salvation and put us to shame.
Judas, one of the twelve, was ruined by greed sown into his heart by Satan. He
lost his salvation, fell into disgrace, and ended his life by suicide.
Therefore, beloved,
let us guard ourselves carefully. Let us not dishonour God’s glory, nor love
what is worthless, nor pursue what is false.

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