04.10.2015 Old Testament: 1Sa 5.1–5

To read the Bible in a year, read First Samuel 4–6 on April 10, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

The foolishness of idolatry is that the idols cannot talk, walk, smell, work, create, or do anything, yet, the one time the Bible shows an idol doing something, watch what it does,

Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon. And when the people of Ashdod arose early in the morning, there was Dagon, fallen on its face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set it in its place again. And when they arose early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on its face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. The head of Dagon and both the palms of its hands were broken off on the threshold; only Dagon’s torso was left of it. Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon’s house tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day (1 Samuel 5.1–5). 

If an idol could act, it would bow before the Lord! How wonderful is that? We serve the true and living God. We read and meditate upon His word. May we glorify Him in our lives.