5/28/19 Steve and Sophia (see HERE)
There’s nothing like a potluck dinner to fulfill one’s every
desire as you fill your plate with whatever looks tasty or interesting at the
moment. But approaching all the different
religious ideas out there like our own personal buffet table is a bad idea. The Israelites did so throughout the Old
Testament, and they were repeatedly denounced as people who “did whatever
seemed right in their own eyes.”
Proverbs 14 tells us about this approach: “There is a way
that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” That way is the way of the buffet table, the
picking and choosing of our own pet beliefs about religion, according to our whims
and desires at the moment. We can’t
afford to do what seems right to us like the Israelites, because when we pick
and choose what we will believe about God we end up forming an image of God in
our imagination that serves us, that makes us feel comfortable, one that puts
us in charge rather than God.

God gives us plenty of opportunities and choices in life as
varied and interesting as a potluck table.
Let’s just not make our understanding of who God is – His character and commands
about how we might relate to Him – one of them.
Thanks, Steve and Sophia, for allowing me to record our conversation. It can be seen HERE
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