Sunday, March 22, 2009

Right In Our Own Eyes

Deuteronomy 12:8 KJV
Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

The context has to do with the place the Jews were to worship the Lord. During the years in the wilderness the tabernacle served as a temporary place of worship. It was portable and, though positioned in the center of the encampment of Israel, was not a permanent place to worship.

And God said that this temporary and portable type of worship was the same as their doing "every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes." God had an entirely different plan for his children. In the Promised Land God would select a place belonging to one of the tribes and He would establish His habitation there. All of God's children were to seek God in that habitation.

When a man worships God wherever he chooses, God says THAT is doing whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

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