29 “When the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,30 take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’ 31 You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. (Deuteronomy 12)
Things need to be different. Earlier in the chapter, God says His people need to live differently in the promised land than they did when they were in the wilderness. They will also need to live, and worship, differently that those who were there before them. There are all sorts of wrong ways to live and worship, most of them wrong. It is not about fitting in with those around you. It is not feeling good about who you are or what you do. It is found in pleasing God, the One who gives life, provides our needs, and makes a place and a way to worship. Let us not pursue worship according to our own standards or those of the world around us. Let us worship Him in Spirit, in Truth, and in His way.
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