Despite God’s warning, Israel’s idolatry grew more and more. They worshipped Baal and then started making their own idols from silver. Their future was as precarious as smoke escaping through a window (3).

They ignored their God, who led them out of Egypt and guided them through the wilderness. He had been their Lord, who knew and cared for them (4,5). As he loved them dearly, his anger toward them was also great, as they had turned to idolatry. God’s anger will turn him to be like a lion and a bear to destroy them from their sinful ways of life. God has the power to raise a king and then take away the king (11). In the end, only He is our Lord and the true King. Even if their pride and stubbornness are like a child refusing to come out of a womb when the time of birth comes, which then will lead both the child and mother to death, God will deliver them with his power. And he did it through Jesus’ death and resurrection. He overcomes the power of sin and death (14).

Would you come before the Lord, who led you out of the grip of sin and death to have life, and confess him as your true King today?
Application: Father, you are my creator, Lord. You know me, and you love me. No grip of sin and death can cut me off from you. I am coming to you today. You are my King.
One Word: You are my King.