<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0dc78b09-db93-4bac-8d28-5556919ca15f/55E5B722-F938-4D75-9D81-21A64CF2A907/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.vinceantonucci.com/2009/06/mute-idols.html" href="http://www.vinceantonucci.com/2009/06/mute-idols.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.vinceantonucci.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vinceantonucci.com/2009/06/mute-idols.html"><DIV>But, for some reason, the verse that really popped for me was verse 2, where it talks about how before they had come to Jesus they had worshiped "mute idols." It's interesting to me that all throughout the Old Testament God ridicules people's worship of idols, and consistently the thing that he focuses on is that they have chosen to worship a god who can't talk. And then here in the New Testament, it's not just "idols" that were worshiped, but "mute" idols. Like, <SPAN>"What kind of dummy would choose to worship a god who can't speak to you?!?!"</SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vinceantonucci.com/2009/06/mute-idols.html"><DIV>The reason I think that's interesting is because I'm pretty sure many Christians today don't believe God speaks to us. <SPAN>Even amongst believers it's considered kind of strange to say, "God told me" and you'll get suspicious eyebrows raised. </SPAN>But if God doesn't tell you stuff, wouldn't He ridicule you for worshiping Him? Because what kind of dummy chooses to worship a god who can't speak to you?!?</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/55E5B722-F938-4D75-9D81-21A64CF2A907/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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