Foreign gods

Genesis 35: 1 – 5

¹ Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”

² So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. ³ Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.” ⁴ So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem. ⁵ Then they set out, and the terror of God fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.

What I took from that: In order to answer God’s calling in our lives, we must first get rid of all foreign gods.

So I had to ask myself some questions that I hope you’ll ask yourself as well:

• What’s my foreign god?
• What am I pursuing more than I’m pursuing Jesus?
• What do I spend the most amount of time and money on?
• Is there anything in my life that is keeping me from answering God’s calling?

Look at what happened when Jacob and his household got rid of all foreign gods and answered the true God’s calling, God protected them. What is He calling you to do?