ONE GOD

"That to which your heart clings is your god." – Martin Luther

The Bible proclaims plainly and clearly that there is one, and only one God. When the Bible says that God is one, the word "one" does not refer to a "Family of gods," but to ONE, ONLY, IRREPLACEABLE God.

In some of the villages on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu in the South Pacific, Prince Philip of Great Britain is worshiped as a god. It seemed as though, this began during the 1960s, when Vanuatu was an Anglo-French colony known as the, New Hebrides.

For centuries, villagers had believed in an ancient story about the son of a mountain spirit, venturing across the seas to look for a powerful woman to marry. They believed that, this spirit had pale skin. Somehow the legend gradually became associated with Prince Philip, who had indeed married a rich and powerful lady. Villagers would have seen his portrait - and that of the Queen - in government outposts and police stations run by British colonial officials. Their beliefs were bolstered in 1974, when the Queen and Prince Philip made an official visit to the New Hebrides. Here was their ancestral spirit,
resplendent in a white naval officer's uniform, come back to show off his bride. Although Christian missionaries have been in Tanna since the early 1800's. One tribal chief said, of Prince Philip, "He's a god, not a man."

Our hearts are only big enough for One God. Who would it be? The ONE God, Maker of Heaven and earth, or ones made by human hands and heart? Confess any idolatry and any love of things. Seek to love and follow Jesus with your whole heart. The only God should be the God of all, the maker of Heaven and Earth. When you worship man, you are making the Lord God less important; He departs from you. But when you make Him the God, in your life, He makes you His child, and goes all out to keep, protect and preserve you.