Who is your god?

I am the Lord your God you shall have no other gods before me.

There are a few passages in the Bible which are succinct statements of the core of our Christian faith from a Lutheran perspective.  This verse from Exodus 20, however, is at the core of everything, because who or what you claim as God directs and defines your life.

Christians claim as God the YHWH who spoke to Moses in the book known as Exodus.  (Jews too BTW).  From creation through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and eventually Egypt, the God who called itself YHWH - I am who I am (or I will be who I will be) - is the 'father' of Jesus, the God of creation, the source of life and love.

In Martin Luther's Large Catechism he says, 'that in which you put your trust is your god' which, of course means we all have a god, we just don't all have the God revealed in Jesus and through the Bible.

So the next time someone....including me and you....claims to be doing something in the name of God, you might want to check out which god is being talked about.....because everything is being done in the name of one god or another.  Mine is Jesus....most of the time.