May 4 | Morning
5/4/20263 min
❖ This is the devotional for the morning of May 4.
❖ The Scripture for this devotion is Jeremiah 16:20.
❖ This podcast comes from Crossway's new edition of 'Morning and Evening' written by Charles H. Spurgeon and revised by Alistair Begg. This podcast is narrated by Frazer Blaxland.
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[gentle music] May fourth, morning. "Can man make for himself gods? Such are not gods." Jeremiah chapter sixteen, verse twenty. One great besetting sin of ancient Israel was idolatry, and the church is vexed with a tendency to the same folly. The ancient gods of man's invention have mostly disappeared, but the shrines of pride are not forsaken, and the golden calf still stands. Self makes an empty display, and the flesh sets up its altars wherever it can find space for them. Favorite children are often the cause of much sin in believers. The Lord is grieved when He sees us doting upon them beyond measure. They will live to be as great a curse to us as Absalom was to David, or they will be taken from us to leave our homes desolate. If Christians desire thorns with which to stuff their sleepless pillows, let them dote on their children. It is accurate to say that such are not gods, for the objects of our foolish love are very doubtful blessings. The solace that they yield us now is dangerous, and the help that they can give us in the hour of trouble is small indeed. Why, then, are we so bewitched with vanities?