God Shelf

Recently I was thinking about something I was told by someone who had ministered in India.  They said that often the “converts” in India just add Jesus to their god shelf.  In India they worship many gods and so Jesus just gets added as one more god in the multitude.  But Jesus is not just one more god.  He is the Supreme, Almighty, Most High God.  When we say “yes” to Jesus, we are saying “Yes, I want You to be the Lord of all in my life.”  There is to be no other, for in Jesus alone do we find life.  Jesus is the only way to God the Father.  Salvation is only found in Jesus.  No other god has taken on human flesh and died to redeem mankind from their sin.  No other god can claim the role of Creator. 

We as Christians know these things about Jesus.  But how often do we just add Jesus to the god shelf of our lives?  How many other gods do we serve?  Entertainment?  Pleasure?  Education?  Work? Possesions?  Self? 

2 Kings 17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.

Exodus 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

John 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

 

John 1:1-4 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² The same was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. ⁴ In him was life; and the life was the light of men.