This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle. For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned sacrifices in it to gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. They have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind. - Jer. 19:3-5 NIV
Lovely homes built on mountainsides, towering office complexes, even cell towers and fire lookout stations, any and all of these structures that rise above can be cut down. All that we trust in, all that we worship, can fall in an instant. The ancient Israelites trusted in the gods of the high places. Perhaps some of us are doing the same thing. From our perches high above the masses, we think we are immune, yet God can smash all of those high places in an instant. There is and always has been only one who is worthy of being exalted, only one who is high and lifted up. He is a jealous God. He will not share his glory with another. Look around at all of the things that we lift up or that lift us up. None can equal the Lord God and he will bring low all the high places and those that revel in them as well.
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