It’s Like Apples and Oranges

You can get on the internet and type in to a search engine the word “compare” and it will bring up websites that will let you compare anything from computers to phones to grocery stores and on and on.  You can’t run out of websites that will help you compare items.  We always want the best product or the best buy and love shopping around.  When it comes to gods to choose from, there really is no comparison.  Some gods are dead. They were just humans that taught good ideas and then died.  Some gods were just carved images in stone and wood.  They could never even come up with a good idea.  Some gods are just things we find in nature.  They don’t even think on the same level as we do.  It is interesting to look back over the history of mankind and see all the “gods” that man has created to worship and hope in.  How futile these efforts are.  Our own basic intelligence should naturally lead us to realize that for a god to be our god, it must be more intelligent, more powerful, more loving, more wise, and live longer than us.  The God of the Bible is the only god that has ever met all those requirements and more.  He is the only one who is alive and loves us deeply.  He is the only one who has taught us wisdom and given us knowledge that is unsurpassable.  He even reminds us in Isaiah 40: 25-26 that nothing will ever compare to Him:

“25 “Who will you compare Me to, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.  26 Look up and see:  who created these? He brings out the starry host by number; He calls all of them by name. Because of His great power and strength, not one of them is missing.”

When looking for a god to serve, worship and love, all we have to do is but look up and see that the God of the Bible is the one.  Comparing other gods with Him is like apples and oranges being compared.  There really is nothing in common but that they are fruits.  There is nothing really in common between God and other gods we could chose to worship, except that they are all just lumped in to man’s choices for their gods.  Just like apples and oranges are all lumped in to the category of fruits.  Wisdom should tell us after looking at the stars and other parts of God’s creation that they could have only come from one source, the one true God and that nothing compares to Him.  He is above all and all comes from Him.

It’s Like Apples and Oranges

You can get on the internet and type in to a search engine the word “compare” and it will bring up websites that will let you compare anything from computers to phones to grocery stores and on and on.  You can’t run out of websites that will help you compare items.  We always want the best product or the best buy and love shopping around.  When it comes to gods to choose from, there really is no comparison.  Some gods are dead. They were just humans that taught good ideas and then died.  Some gods were just carved images in stone and wood.  They could never even come up with a good idea.  Some gods are just things we find in nature.  They don’t even think on the same level as we do.  It is interesting to look back over the history of mankind and see all the “gods” that man has created to worship and hope in.  How futile these efforts are.  Our own basic intelligence should naturally lead us to realize that for a god to be our god, it must be more intelligent, more powerful, more loving, more wise, and live longer than us.  The God of the Bible is the only god that has ever met all those requirements and more.  He is the only one who is alive and loves us deeply.  He is the only one who has taught us wisdom and given us knowledge that is unsurpassable.  He even reminds us in Isaiah 40: 25-26 that nothing will ever compare to Him:

“25 “Who will you compare Me to, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.  26 Look up and see:  who created these? He brings out the starry host by number; He calls all of them by name. Because of His great power and strength, not one of them is missing.”

When looking for a god to serve, worship and love, all we have to do is but look up and see that the God of the Bible is the one.  Comparing other gods with Him is like apples and oranges being compared.  There really is nothing in common but that they are fruits.  There is nothing really in common between God and other gods we could chose to worship, except that they are all just lumped in to man’s choices for their gods.  Just like apples and oranges are all lumped in to the category of fruits.  Wisdom should tell us after looking at the stars and other parts of God’s creation that they could have only come from one source, the one true God and that nothing compares to Him.  He is above all and all comes from Him.

Common Sense Prayer To Make Sense of it All

There are many things that can puzzle us in life.  Things just don’t make sense to us.  We don’t know why things are happening the way they are.  Yet, throughout the ages people have not used the common sense God gave them to figure it all out.  Isaiah 45:18 says,

“God, Creator of the heavens— he is, remember, God. Maker of earth— he put it on its foundations, built it from scratch. He didn’t go to all that trouble to just leave it empty, nothing in it. He made it to be lived in. This God says: “I am God, the one and only. I don’t just talk to myself or mumble under my breath. I never told Jacob, ‘Seek me in emptiness, in dark nothingness.’ I am God. I work out in the open, saying what’s right, setting things right. So gather around, come on in, all you refugees and castoffs. They don’t seem to know much, do they— those who carry around their no-god blocks of wood, praying for help to a dead stick? So tell me what you think. Look at the evidence. Put your heads together. Make your case. Who told you, and a long time ago, what’s going on here? Who made sense of things for you? Wasn’t I the one? God? It had to be me. I’m the only God there is— The only God who does things right and knows how to help. So turn to me and be helped—saved!— everyone, whoever and wherever you are. I am God, the only God there is, the one and only. I promise in my own name: Every word out of my mouth does what it says. I never take back what I say. Everyone is going to end up kneeling before me. Everyone is going to end up saying of me, ‘Yes! Salvation and strength are in God!’”

In this verse we see people praying to their idols.  Their idols are blocks of wood that know nothing, do nothing and say nothing.  You can compare that to someone using cult religions, astrology, palm readers, psychologists, physicians, the internet, etc to find their answers to life’s dilemmas.  They think they can make sense of their lives and their futures through a wide variety of worldly methods.  God tells us in this scripture that God is the one that makes sense of things.  He created common sense and makes good sense.  He tells us His Word is good and promises true. He reminds us that every knee will bow before Him when it is time.  Therefore, why not start now.  Bow our knees now to Him and go to Him and make sense of our life with His knowledge, wisdom and guidance.  Get ahold of God’s common sense through prayer.

It’s Like Apples and Oranges

You can get on the internet and type in to a search engine the word “compare” and it will bring up websites that will let you compare anything from computers to phones to grocery stores and on and on.  You can’t run out of websites that will help you compare items.  We always want the best product or the best buy and love shopping around.  When it comes to gods to choose from, there really is no comparison.  Some gods are dead. They were just humans that taught good ideas and then died.  Some gods were just carved images in stone and wood.  They could never even come up with a good idea.  Some gods are just things we find in nature.  They don’t even think on the same level as we do.  It is interesting to look back over the history of mankind and see all the “gods” that man has created to worship and hope in.  How futile these efforts are.  Our own basic intelligence should naturally lead us to realize that for a god to be our god, it must be more intelligent, more powerful, more loving, more wise, and live longer than us.  The God of the Bible is the only god that has ever met all those requirements and more.  He is the only one who is alive and loves us deeply.  He is the only one who has taught us wisdom and given us knowledge that is unsurpassable.  He even reminds us in Isaiah 40: 25-26 that nothing will ever compare to Him:

“25 “Who will you compare Me to, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.  26 Look up and see:  who created these? He brings out the starry host by number; He calls all of them by name. Because of His great power and strength, not one of them is missing.”

When looking for a god to serve, worship and love, all we have to do is but look up and see that the God of the Bible is the one.  Comparing other gods with Him is like apples and oranges being compared.  There really is nothing in common but that they are fruits.  There is nothing really in common between God and other gods we could chose to worship, except that they are all just lumped in to man’s choices for their gods.  Just like apples and oranges are all lumped in to the category of fruits.  Wisdom should tell us after looking at the stars and other parts of God’s creation that they could have only come from one source, the one true God and that nothing compares to Him.  He is above all and all comes from Him.

Common Sense Prayer To Make Sense of it All

There are many things that can puzzle us in life.  Things just don’t make sense to us.  We don’t know why things are happening the way they are.  Yet, throughout the ages people have not used the common sense God gave them to figure it all out.  Isaiah 45:18 says,

“God, Creator of the heavens— he is, remember, God. Maker of earth— he put it on its foundations, built it from scratch. He didn’t go to all that trouble to just leave it empty, nothing in it. He made it to be lived in. This God says: “I am God, the one and only. I don’t just talk to myself or mumble under my breath. I never told Jacob, ‘Seek me in emptiness, in dark nothingness.’ I am God. I work out in the open, saying what’s right, setting things right. So gather around, come on in, all you refugees and castoffs. They don’t seem to know much, do they— those who carry around their no-god blocks of wood, praying for help to a dead stick? So tell me what you think. Look at the evidence. Put your heads together. Make your case. Who told you, and a long time ago, what’s going on here? Who made sense of things for you? Wasn’t I the one? God? It had to be me. I’m the only God there is— The only God who does things right and knows how to help. So turn to me and be helped—saved!— everyone, whoever and wherever you are. I am God, the only God there is, the one and only. I promise in my own name: Every word out of my mouth does what it says. I never take back what I say. Everyone is going to end up kneeling before me. Everyone is going to end up saying of me, ‘Yes! Salvation and strength are in God!’”

In this verse we see people praying to their idols.  Their idols are blocks of wood that know nothing, do nothing and say nothing.  You can compare that to someone using cult religions, astrology, palm readers, psychologists, physicians, the internet, etc to find their answers to life’s dilemmas.  They think they can make sense of their lives and their futures through a wide variety of worldly methods.  God tells us in this scripture that God is the one that makes sense of things.  He created common sense and makes good sense.  He tells us His Word is good and promises true. He reminds us that every knee will bow before Him when it is time.  Therefore, why not start now.  Bow our knees now to Him and go to Him and make sense of our life with His knowledge, wisdom and guidance.  Get ahold of God’s common sense through prayer.