Idolatrous Worship....

Idolatrous worship: when people worship anything substituted in God’s place. How does God respond to these practices? Cheated... people will go to the ends of the earth to try to fill the void of God’s presence and deserved worship. Death doesn’t even stop some from pushing the envelope. It’s amazes me to see the extent to which some go in their efforts to replace God with something else. The only thing this practice eventually achieves, is God being cheated out of what is rightfully His, and the justified condemnation of the practitioner. The only inheritance they will receive is false security, deception, and a life void of truth. And worst of all, no peace.

Good people pass away;the godly often die before their time.But no one seems to care or wonder why.No one seems to understandthat God is protecting them from the evil to come.2 For those who follow godly pathswill rest in peace when they die. Idolatrous Worship Condemned 3 “But you–come here, you witches’ children,you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!4 Whom do you mock,making faces and sticking out your tongues?You children of sinners and liars!5 You worship your idols with great passionbeneath the oaks and under every green tree.You sacrifice your children down in the valleys,among the jagged rocks in the cliffs.6 Your gods are the smooth stones in the valleys.You worship them with liquid offerings and grain offerings.They, not I, are your inheritance.Do you think all this makes Me happy?7 You have committed adultery on every high mountain.There you have worshiped idols and have been unfaithful to Me.8 You have put pagan symbolson your doorposts and behind your doors. You have left Meand climbed into bed with these detestable gods.You have committed yourselves to them.You love to look at their naked bodies.9 You have given olive oil to Molech with many gifts of perfume. You have traveled far, even into the world of the dead, to find new gods to love.10 You grew weary in your search,but you never gave up.Desire gave you renewed strength,and you did not grow weary. 11 “Are you afraid of these idols?Do they terrify you? Is that why you have lied to Me and forgotten Me and My words? Is it because of My long silence that you no longer fear Me? 12 Now I will expose your so-called good deeds.None of them will help you.13 Let’s see if your idols can save you when you cry to them for help. Why, a puff of wind can knock them down! If you just breathe on them, they fall over! But whoever trusts in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain. Isaiah 57:1-13

20 “But those who still reject Me are like the restless sea, which is never still but continually churns up mud and dirt.21 There is no peace for the wicked,” says my God. Isaiah 57:20-21