Clamoring For A Photo

He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.Isaiah 53:3

Recently when watching the 2020 CMA Music Fest on TV it just made me kind of laugh how humans react to normal people who happen to be rich and famous.Yours truly is guilty.  Keith Urban strolled through the crowded audience at the Nissan Stadium field in Nashville with bodyguards as cell phones went up and thousands were taking that picture of this famous guy.

Now if you or I step out on the street paparazzi aren’t stalking us because we are not well known. Basically all of us put our pants on the same way some just wear more expensive pants. Jesus wouldn’t have had drawn crowds because there are accounts he wasn’t one people cared about. Now Jesus’ followers would certainly be excited to see him like Zaccheus who climbed up in a tree to get a better look at him.

You and I are to have no other ‘gods’ before him it says in Exodus 20:3 and Deuteronomy 5:7. It is easy to get mesmerized by worldly things but as a follower of the most high God only He deserves the highest praise. Who or what is an idol in your life today? 

PRAYER: I am so grateful for all the wonderful things there are in life to enjoy and at times it may be easy to swoon over celebrities or put them on a pedestal. Help me Lord redirect my delight in you and help me to not put anything higher than you. In Jesus’ name. Amen.