Bastion Point
Hello
everyone,
How
are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.
Primary Text
“Thou
shalt have no other gods before Me.” Exodus 20v3 (KJV)
I
recently read a novel called Bastion Point. For the main character, Bastion
Point was a place of safety, refuge, love, where she longed for. For these
reasons, it was a place she wanted above all other things. Bastion Point was
the place her grand parents lived and she was told by her grand father that she
could inherit it if she could find “treasures that money and wit and strength
cannot buy.” In a sense, Bastion Point had become an idol for her, for she felt
if she had Bastion Point she would be secure, she wouldn’t have to do what she
didn’t want to do, and will be well provided for. Beloved, what has become your
Bastion Point? Is it a relationship, family, job, money, title/status,
children? What is it that you have begun to put your trust in and feel as long
as this is here, I will be fine? What is it that makes you think only of your
own interests and care less about any other person? At the end of the day, the
character did find those treasures, which in the words of her granddad was:
“the treasure of learning what is more important in life than a house and land
and the security they bring – your faith in Jesus and willingness to put others
before yourself. Those are the treasures worth having.” God will have us have
no other gods before Him. However, consciously or unconsciously, we might begin
to elevate things before Him. Yes, we serve Him, but at the back of our minds,
our safety and provision is tied to this “Bastion Point”. Let us search our hearts
and repent of every way we have put other things before the Lord our God.
Indeed He alone is our refuge, fortress, strength, provider and everything. He
is our Rock and our Safety and it is in Him we live, and move and have our
being (Acts 17v28). People will fail us; the job, money, home we cling to can
fade away at anytime, but only God will always be there for us.
Supplementary Text
“Come
close to God and He will come close to you. [Recognize that you are] sinners,
get your soiled hands clean; [realize that you have been disloyal] wavering
individuals with divided interests, and purify your hearts [of your spiritual
adultery].” James 4v8 (AMP)
Prayer
Why
don’t you search your heart and see if there are any “Bastion Points”, repent
and recommit your life wholly to God.
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