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Worship God Alone

by Brett Fuller on September 30, 2019

When God created the world, He made some things visible and others invisible. The things invisible were to remain a mystery unless He revealed them. Things visible were created for our observance and pleasure. Any recreation of the visible or invisible for the purpose of worship was strictly prohibited.

The Lord’s second command in Exodus 20:4 was, "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.” God uttered this decree to prohibit the reduction of invisibly perfect by the visibly imperfect. Man’s finite perception tainted by sin, could never accurately interpret the beauty and scope of the infinite. Secondly, reducing the mysterious to the manageable necessarily guts it of its wonder and awe. How reverent can one really be if his god to which he bows, started out as a branch of a tree?

Lastly, fashioning an instrument of worship after a created being reveals the depth of our fall. What created being possesses the innate supernatural transcendence worthy of my worship? Please, worship right, worship well…