Everyone “thirsts for God, for the living God” (Ps 42:2a). Life and death are absolute opposites. The one delights & refreshes while the other destroys & repulses. Life is real, true existence. Death is nothing–the end of existence. So, no mistake could be as fatal and harmful as this: to trust death to help you, to fulfill you, to save you. This happened whenever one trusted in “worthless idols” rather than in “the Lord (who) is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King” (Jer.10:10). But, idols do not have to be wooden. “Greed is idolatry” (Col. 3:5b). Whatever & whomever you crave MORE than God is your idol at that moment. And all idols are deadly! To fondle them is to play with stinking, wretched death. We are warned to “Turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth” (Acts 14:15b). It shouldn’t surprise us that God does not look lightly on those who turn from life to death. From what He promotes to what he condemns. Especially when desperate sinners like us turn away from Jesus, who is the water of life, the bread of life, the light of life (John 4:14; 6:35; 8:12). In fact, Jesus simply is, life itself (John 14:6a). He is greater than death. “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies” (John 11:25).
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