Psalm 97:7 – 7 All who worship images are put to shame,
those who boast in idols—
worship him, all you gods!
Now I don’t know about you but I remember the first time I read this and thought, that’s interesting.
However, like most of the Bible, we read it and over our lifetime you begin to study and things that you didn’t first understand take on more meaning.
I was familiar with the following verse before I even read the Bible all the way through.
Isaiah 45:5 – 5 I am the LORD, and there is no other;
apart from me there is no God.
So when I came across this is Psalms, I thought it was an interesting phrase.
Then as we begin to look at the other religions of the world, we see something quite common in many of them. Hinduism teaches that everything is god and they are gods themselves. This would both speak of the idols and all you gods. The New Age teaches that we are all gods and you just have to get to that higher consciousness. The Mormon religion teaches that god was once a man, and that as man they can become god. However, that doesn’t jive with Isaiah above.
Who was the first one to convince man he could be like God?
Genesis 3:1-5 – 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Was the devil telling the truth? God banishes man from the garden and the Tree of Life and he is now gone from perfect into sin. Two plus two tells me that any religion that believes you can become God is basing their whole life on the fact the devil was telling the truth.
Psalm 97:7 is calling out and mocking those who dare to call themselves god. We are the creation, not the creator. There is only One of Him. Don’t let the devil still your eternity on something you want relate to because it seems good to you or fits what you want. Humbly seek God and serve Him for the rest of eternity.