Take care, or you will be
seduced into turning away,
serving other gods and
worshipping them.
Deuteronomy 11:16
"Seduced" is a word we usually associate with sexuality.
Indeed, with the ease and prevalence of pornography on the internet, we have a major problem with lust in our society today. (According to statistics I looked up for this, there are about 10,000 women accessing pornography every second in America. Women! And men access it at about twice that rate.)
In recent sermons I've talked about Baal. That's the name that evil used among the Canannites and in Old Testament times. But even though we might call it by different names today, evil, carnal excess, and depravity haven't left us.
Deuteronomy covers the end of the Exodus. God and Moses are trying to prepare the people to cross over into and thrive in the promised land. "Seduced" in this context isn't a sexual word, it's a devotional word. When we worship the flesh and go along with the world, we are "turning away" from the God of Heaven and worshiping the gods of the world.
Don't let this world seduce you away from the true God and true grace.
In Christ's Love,
a guy who wants to be wooed
by God and grace
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