How many gods are there? Have you added them all up? Have you considered the number of gods people have in their lives? Have you added up the number of things people worship? Do you have many gods? Do worship things or people? Or do you only worship the one God?
People worship many things and many people. Our culture puts a premium on social status and the possessions we can acquire. We are influenced by culture to put people in certain professions on a pedestal. All of this creates many gods for us to worship.
Yet, the Bible tells us there is one God, the Creator of all things. God, who is holy, is the only God we are to worship. He sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to step into creation to be our Savior. Jesus, through His work on the cross, is our mediator before God the Father. The price He paid, the price we cannot pay for ourselves, sets us free from the culture we live in.
If we are free, why do we continue to allow ourselves to be imprisoned by our culture. Being human, we get wrapped up in what is happening around us. We get caught up in family relationships and friendships. We desire to do well and are pulled into the trap of worshiping our job. To combat these things, it requires us to be disciplined and focus on God.
The truth the Apostle Paul wrote in his letter to his understudy Timothy is still true today. We need to remind ourselves of this truth every day. There is one God. Jesus is our mediator before the Father. Jesus is fully human and fully God. By going to the cross, Jesus has set us free. We are free to worship the one God and discard the pressures of our culture.
I pray we all know there is only one God. I pray we know the Jesus is our mediator before the Father. I pray each one of us remind ourselves each day that we have been set free. There is one God. Jesus is our mediator. Jesus has set us free. We have been freed from our culture.
1 Timothy 2:5-6
For there is one God;
there is also one mediator between God and humankind,
Christ Jesus, himself human,
who gave himself a ransom for all
—this was attested at the right time.
Marty Pressey 