Christian Devotional – February 17, 2025

Avoiding the Rollercoaster, Day 17

I want my own stuff. Read Judges chapter 17.

Here we see the story of Micah. Micah decides that God isn’t not really God enough for him. He wants his own god. So he creates his own. Micah has his own god built and decorated, and he creates everything that he needs to be able to worship. Unfortunately, Micah’s god isn’t really god.

How many times do we get frustrated with things not happening the way we want them to, and we decide we’re going to take matters in our own hands and set up our own little system. It’ll be fine, we think. We will just start worshipping what we want to worship, such as things that we can control, things that we have power over. So that way, we can feel like we are doing what we ought to be doing, we can feel that we are powerful.

Micah is going to learn that this does not work out very well, but this is a key indicator that we are heading for the start of a rollercoaster. When we decide that we can take things into our own control and that we have the power to make change, and not God, we start down a path that will ultimately lead to destruction. Do we see our path clearly? Have we surrendered control to God, even when we don’t like it or don’t understand it?

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