American Idol

God created Adam and saw that it was no good for man to be alone... And gave him Eve...

God gave his son a bride.

God also provides a bride for his only begotten son, Jesus. 

That bride is you and I, the church. 

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When God's people reject Him and turn to other idols (money, images, people...)...

It's is like the bride rejecting the groom. 

Church rejecting Jesus - Eve rejecting Adam

We go on, in our idolatry, and pair with things we are not suppose to pair with. 

People worship other people

... The bride has paired with the bride.... 

Eve has no interest in Adam.... She wants another Eve....

Two Eves cannot produce the same way an Adam and an Eve can. 

The ability to fufill purpose is lost. 

The ability to be productive is lost. 

The ability to multiply is lost. 

When a man (woman, boy, or girl) worships something other than the one true God (Jesus)... 

The ability to fulfill purpose is lost. 

The ability to be productive is lost. 

The ability to multiply is lost. 

But thanks be to God that we can be forgivin of our idol worship... Our failure to be fruitful and multiply... Our rejection of the groom. 

There is still time to acknowledge that we are wrong, stop doing wrong, and ask for forgiveness. 

And God is faithful... If we confess our sins to Him... He'll forgive them. (1 John 1:9) 

We have got to pair up with who we are made for...

He completes us...

He fulfills us....

He loves us....

He forgives us.

Scripture of the day:

Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles. So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved. (Romans 1:21-27 NLT)

Challenge of the day:

It's not up to us to change ourselves. If we could do that, we wouldn't need a savior. 

Let us go to God admitting that we've done wrong... And that we want to change... Acknowledge that He is able and willing to change us and that we very much want His help.