I am going to copy a short homily, printed weekly in The Cavalier Chronicle, on 10/4/2023, on Page 7. It is for Sunday, 10/8/2023, and is from the 1992 Revised Common Lectionary. I will comment on the homily, entitled, Oh My God!
Homily: “What or who do we worship? A popular person? A coveted possession? None of these last. None has power or fame forever. Encounter the living God in church this week. Put the living God first . . . you shall have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20.”
My response: Should we worship, something higher than ourselves and beyond us? Yes, we should. Who do we worship? I think Jesus is a fine deity to worship, but any of the good deities can be worshiped, I believe, with the blessing of Jesus and the Mother and the Father, for all good deities are on the same team. There are several routes to heaven through different, benevolent deities.
When it says in Exodus to have no other gods before me, the monothestic Yahweh tells humanity, my take is to have no on false gods or evil gods that are demons to worship before worshiping or replacing the worship of Yahweh.
We are not to worship a person—a guru, a demagogue, a totalitarian ruler like Stalin. We are nt to worship possessions—nothing lasts but God.
To encounter the living God: God is living eternally, spiritually and physically in heaven but walks the earth at will among us too.
God adds so much to our lives.
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