Jeremiah 2:28
But where are your gods which you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; For according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.
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As incredible as it sounds we know it is a fact that the people of God who had seen His mighty hand deliver them from bondage in Egypt would then choose to make a golden calf and call it their god when they could not see Moses! {Ex.32} Then later in the time of Jeremiah the Lord makes it clear as that His people were still turning from Him and making their own gods just as the Lord spoke through him in today’s verse!

And even now in spite of all of the many warnings in the New Testament against idolatry to the saints, the children of God, it appears as though that particular evil keeps arising and will continue to do so whenever we take our eyes off of Jesus!
 
We are instructed to ‘fix our eyes on Jesus’ {Heb.12:2} because if we do not our minds will be led astray ‘to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry’ just as Paul wrote to the Colossians. {Col.3:5} Moved by the Holy Spirit he also wrote that in the perilous last days some of the most powerful and evil idols, man-made gods, would capture people's minds: pride, making man his own god, and greed, believing that money is the answer to every problem and that it can truly make people happy and satisfied!
 
In 1957 the United States passed a law requiring that the phrase “In God We Trust” would appear on American currency. The problem is that most people believe that the currency itself actually is the god they can trust in! Lovers of self and lovers of money are the top two on the perilous ‘last days’ warning list. {2Tim.3:1-9}
 
Idolatry is all about having a replacement for the Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who loves us so much that He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to take care of us and fix our problems. Satan, the god of this world {2Cor.4:4}, is a liar by nature whose only desire is to see us perish for all eternity. He is the personification of hate. He has said in his heart that he would make himself like the Most High God! {Is.14:13-14}

So, we have been told and warned from the earliest days. Hear the voice of Joshua, a faithful servant of God:
 
“If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord (YHWH).” (Joshua 24:15)
 
JESUS IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE