“But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back.”~ 1 Kgs. 14:9
The only other time this phrase is used in Scripture is in Ezekiel, shortly before Israel went into captivity, where God says to His people, “…thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back.” In our text, God is speaking to Jeroboam. We are told he was “…a mighty man of valor…and industrious.” God had promised that if he lived for the Lord, He would give him “…all that thy soul desireth.” But, sad to say, like many of us today, he set his idols before God.
Whenever we put anything before God, it becomes an idol. And to accomplish this we must first cast God behind our backs, as Jeroboam did. How heartbreaking, after all God had done for, and given to, this man, for him to put God in the rear of the bus, so to speak. The Lord’s indictment of him was, “…thou hast not been as my servant David…who followed me with all his heart.” This shepherd boy’s testimony was, “I have set the Lord always before me.”
Jesus told Satan to get behind Him; many Christians are telling God that.
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