October 7, 2012 – Psalms 74

When it talks about people coming in and destroying the place where they worshipped, it made me think about the difference between the two possible groups.  Say the Romans came in when they destroyed Jerusalem.  Romans believed in idolatry, that the statues of the Gods were the actual Gods.  When they come in and see statues, they are going to destroy them all thinking that they are killing off the God.  The Jews might be upset that they were defeated and that the Temple was destroyed, but the understand that God was not destroyed. 

Apply that to this day in age.  If our Church burned down, I know that God is not destroyed.  But what about the person whose soul desire is for the material world.  They would do anything for it and to keep it.  Say their house burns down.  What anguish they must go through.  That is just a thought, I don’t know what people are thinking when their house burns down.  I would hope their first thought is “thank god I am alive and my family is safe”.  Next thinking about necessities.  If a person is running out of the burning house with their TV or runs back in for their IPad, they have made that their god.  If you have seen the movie “Man on a Ledge” the villain in that does whatever he has to, to keep his wealth.  He thinks his possessions are a god to be worshipped.