Again and again throughout the Old Testament, the Israelites turn from God and attribute the things God has blessed them with to other “gods” or their own hands. We can shake our heads and wonder how the Israelites could forget the one true God, but in truth, we are no better than the Israelites. Their Asserah poles are our lives of wealth and possession, their other “gods” our celebrities. And when these earthly things fail us, as they failed the Israelites, we come crawling back to God and the cycle begins again with something else to take the last “idol’s” place. But the one truth that never wavers is that God always accepts us back again.
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