Why do we turn to things for deliverance we know won't help us when we see their track record for not helping others? We see people who are wealthy and have a great life and yet that wealth and good life doesn't deliver them from cancer or difficulty of crime. We see people turn to their jobs for "identity" and "value" and yet, their jobs leave them empty and wanting. We see people turn to family for harmony only to discover discontent and division. Amaziah had a great victory over his enemies. But, when he defeated them they had some "shinny" idols that caught his eye. Their attraction enticed him to put them up on his shelf and worship them. Shinny things do that. We like to worship the idols of our victories. Even though God gives us the victory we worship the "trophy". In this case the idols Amaziah decided to worship didn't even rescue the people he defeated to obtain them. God ask the same question we all ought to ask, in 2 Chronicles 25:15:
Then the anger of the Lord burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of the people who have not delivered their own people from your hand?”
When we trust in shinny things, wealthy things, temporal things, chrome things, constructed things, or medical things to deliver us we miss out on the deliverance from the God of the Universe. Only He can deliver. Seek Him for deliverance not the shinny things that the world holds tightly.
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