Topic: Daniel’s Dose: Adventure 17- Have you replaced God?
Bible Reading: Daniel 5
Memory Verse: Daniel 5:3&4 (NKJV)
Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
Good morning ladies and gentlemen! How are you doing? How was your weekend? I hope you had the chance to meet and hang-out with friends and family. All in all, I hope you had a wonderful weekend; full of rest, peace and laughter. This week is the last week in the month of May! Wow! Another month has gone by so quickly. We are almost half-way through the year, 2020. We thank God for seeing us this far!
Today, we would be exploring an interesting topic- gods. As Christians, we believe that once God is at the center of our lives; nothing or no one can replace Him. Though this is true; it is not always the case! Well, let us get right into the message to know more!
When you wake up in the morning, what is the first thing you do? When you are in trouble; who do you cry on first? Who or what do you spend a majority of your time with/ doing; instead of spending time with God? These are a few important questions that you and I have to answer to ourselves.
A lot of the times, Christians complain that they do not have the time to spend either meditating on the Word or prayer. However, we have created many gods in our lives that are replacing the time we spend with God. These distractions can include social media, clothes, food, your job, your spouse, your children, your parents, etc. it could be the littlest of things.
We tend to have these gods because of the physical satisfaction we get; coupled with the physical evidence of it. For example, some people spend a lot of their time eating chocolate. For breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner, any time of the day, s/he is eating chocolate. The pump so much into buying chocolates and turn the blind eye on the health impacts of high consumption of chocolate. Chocolate can become a god because of the pleasure the person derives from eating it- the physical satisfaction. Also, the person can touch (and hold) a bar of chocolate. It makes sense in the human mind to depend on something you can see and have control over.
Well, there are also a large number of Christians that make their s