Don’t Bite the Hand that Feeds You

ALL – Psalm 132:1-18
ALL – Proverbs 29:24-25
OT – Obadiah 1:1-21
NT – Revelation 4:1-11

Interesting passage for the day: “O Lord, you are worthy to receive the glory and the honor and the power, for you have created all things. They were created and called into being by your act of will.” – Revelation 4:11, The Living Bible

Thought: Did you hear the awful news back on November 23rd? About the actor who killed his own mother, chasing her around the home and hacking at her with his sword? It’s just wrong. No child should turn on the very person who gave him life. But that’s just what Michael Brea did.

Betrayals like this happen all too frequently. There’s a reason that everyone understands the phrase, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” But most of us don’t think we’ve done anything nearly as awful as what Michael Brea did.

That’s why it’s so interesting to read the reason that the twenty-four elders in heaven give for worshiping God. “O Lord, you are worthy to receive the glory and the honor and the power,” they sing. But why? “for you have created all things. They were created and called into being by your act of will.”

If God is truly our Creator, then He is more motherly than any mother and more fatherly than any father. He is eternal, so He had no need to pass all His accumulated wealth to an heir. He never sins, so He need never have felt the pain of rebellion, betrayal or hatred; He could have gone without creating us, and He would have been fine on His own. God didn’t need someone to care for Him in His old age. There wasn’t even any pleasure-based motivation for God, the way there is for a young married couple that’s really thinking more about their brief evening together than about (surprise!) an eighteen-plus year commitment to a third party. No. God deliberately, voluntarily, sacrificially chose to create. He created you, me and everyone, and He created us with more love and tenderness than any human mother could offer.

Have you turned your back on God? Have you treated Him like dirt? Have you decided to attack Him and hate the very sound of His name? Have you disowned God or killed Him off in your life (even if you can’t in reality)?

If you have, Michael Brea’s atrocities can’t hold a candle to yours. As God’s creation, your sin against Him leaves you useful for nothing except to be thrown out and burned like rubbish.

The good news? This wonderful Creator, through His Son Jesus Christ, can turn rubbish into treasure. He can make a new creation out of you. And He wants to.

Question: Why did you turn against your Creator? Have you come back to Him yet? Will you admit how wrong you were and live to give Him all that He deserves for creating you?

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