Hold On To It

There are extremely many forms of fraud that has been evident nowadays. We have fake medicines, forged documents, counterfeit money, sham jewelry, false testimony, fake products and the like. These trends, yes they have evolved as trends now, have brought so much suffering and misery and even death to other people. Of course, no one would want a friend that is a liar or a business associate that is engaged in immoral activities that bring destruction to other people. We would always want a true friend, a true witness, and factual account of events. There is always a need to search for the truth and it seems that the truth is so hard to achieve these days.

And this ‘fraud’ has already crawled into the spiritual or religious life of many who look as if they do not to care if the one whom they are worshipping is the true God or a false one. They have become victims of the most dangerous and destructive fraud of all time by letting themselves just go with the flow without checking for their genuineness, not like when they purchase a laptop or other modern gadgets. They have been blind of what false Gods have been offering them.

For one’s religious worship to be genuine, he should simply worship the true God, which requires knowing first the true identity of the true and living God. Man cannot possibly worship God, and cannot be brought to salvation, if he does not know Him.  False Gods or idols made by men are certainly not the true God taught by the Bible and should never be recognized, much less, worshipped. People who seem to worship idols as their Gods seem to be silly because these highly-valued objects are in fact worthless.

But of course, it isn’t just enough to know who the true God is. It isn’t adequate that you know from your brothers the true God. You must accompany it by true worship. Man himself must be true and his worship must also be genuine because not all kinds of worship are acceptable to Him. There are various accounts in the Bible where people are worshipping him but do not amount to anything, although those people have exerted a lot of effort and invested a lot of money and time. They have even sacrificed for the sake of God, but to God’s wisdom, they mean nothing.

Indeed, it is always best to stand for truth and to turn back to what is false. We must always seek and obey what is true and factual because this will lead us to God and salvation. In this unkind world, there are incredibly many forms of fraud and it takes a lot of effort and serious true faith to know which ones are authentic and which ones are not. Truly, we must cling on to the truth so that when temptation comes, we wouldn’t be carried away. There is one true God and he deserves true worship from us.