Hands #3

One thing I have found as I have been looking at the hands is our own human hands create many of the idols we tend to worship! Not good! This doesn't say much for our own smarts does it?

Deuteronomy 4:27-29
27 And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you. 28 And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29 But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

This same type verse can be found many times in God's Word. Some of you may be thinking right now...."what are some idols we make with hands these days?". Glad you asked! Money, cell phones, TV, cars, motorcycles, boats, food, and so many others things that our hands make and we put in the place of God! 

So that brings me to this....if our hands are leading us to sin what should we do?

Mark 9:43
43 And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.

Seems to me that God takes sin very seriously and so should we!!! Let us be in control of our hands brothers and sisters through the power of the Holy Spirit!

Tom