“You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’ Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off… a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.” Isaiah 47:10-11.
When we hear the words from fellow Christians ‘God will be faithful’ it generally evokes a word of encouragement and hope for the future. But in the same way God is faithful in our deliverance and rescues, He will be faithful in His warnings regarding our sins. The passage above is a final warning to His children regarding their worship of idols rather than God. God cannot be less than God so His word will always prove true. God handed His children over to the culture for which they worshipped. ‘Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia and put in the treasure house of his god.’ Daniel 1:1-2.
I think it is more than a coincidence that God’s children were not so blatant as to go into the city of Babylon. They allowed Babylon to invade their lives by their neglect of their city walls. They sat on the horizon unprotected and unaware of the looming attacks. They were comfortable in their worship and justified in their idols, making them vulnerable to the infiltration and kidnapping . They didn’t even lock up the articles of God in the temple but allowed them to sit as common place exposed to whatever the culture mandated.
We cannot allow our culture to carry away the precious articles of God stored up in our hearts and minds. We must spend time making God a priority in our lives building the temple walls of protection in our hearts. We cannot allow our Babylon mentality (I am, and there is none besides me) to convince us that we are justified in our emotions and are entitled to certain things and attitudes. Babylon has a king and its name is ‘I am’ (the counterfeit of God)…this king is constantly seeking a queen for its country to serve alongside and do the bidding of the culture for him. We must revere God and hold tightly to the things that belong to God so this culture will not carry away His teachings which are stored up in our hearts. Our treasure house will possess attitudes that will not fit into this earthly kingdom but are essential in God's kingdom where He will not share His crown with anyone...the true 'I AM.'
This is one crown we dare not wear….
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