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The most natural thing in the world

Molech.Zm.-86.--5

“The gods and goddesses . . . are so many parts of the stream of life and are borne along on its current.  They are personifications of natural process.  To make and worship iconic representations of them is the most natural thing in the world.”

Christopher R. North, “The Essence of Idolatry,” BZAW 77 (1958): 159.

It is the most natural thing in the world to misunderstand and misrepresent God.  All we have to do is neglect the Word of God and follow our own sense of things, our own intuitions and good intentions.  But whenever our natural selves take over, bad things start happening.

Worshiping Christ alone is an adjustment.  It is unnatural to set ourselves aside and press into the Scriptures to find out how he wants us to change.  Initially, those biblical changes might feel counterintuitive, even risky, probably humbling.  But they are freeing.

We pay a price to follow Christ alone.  But we pay a far higher price not to follow Christ alone.

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