The Lord of heaven and earth, the God of all creation, the Master of our lives, Yeshua is His name, Yahweh is who He is and He alone is God, outside of time, far above the heavens and yet draws near to us on earth. There are many gods on the earth, but there is none like our God. Our God has eyes and can see, ears and can hear, a mouth and can speak. We serve a relational God, a faithful Father, Jesus is our brother, the Holy Spirit is our comforter, counselor and promise keeper. Oh who blessed we are who know Yahweh is God.

Yesterday we were driving through downtown Franklin, TN and coming out of a Catholic Church were a procession of people and they began to parade down with street with a statue of Mary. But what stuck me is they were carrying her on poles on their shoulders, just like Yahweh commanded the priests to do with the ark of the covenant. As we watched from our car, listening to their chants, I was reminded the devil is dumb, but he is a master deceiver. He cannot create anything, but he counterfeits everything. He watches what God does more than most of us do and he twists it for his own purposes. The scene was obvious as I watched it, the counterfeit was a marching down the streets of my city with people who were just as blind as the statue they were carrying and chanting to.

Psalm 135 is my prayer partner today on this 15th day of October and it says, “The idols of the nations are but silver and gold, The work of man’s hands. They have mouths, but they do not speak; They have eyes, but they do not see; They have ears, but they do not hear, Nor is there any breath at all in their mouths. Those who make them will be like them, Yes, everyone who trusts in them.”

As we go to church today to worship, all over the world, we are singing to a living God, we are praying to a God that hears and speaks. Our God is in heaven, Psaslm 135 says, He can do whatever He wants! Once I was blind, but now I see, it truly is amazing grace that has set me free. Pray for your cities my friends for it is not buildings, it is people who can’t see and therefore are not set free. Only the truth can set us free, so we can see.