Give Credit Where Credit is Due

          We should give credit where credit is due. History is interesting in that it gives us a lot of details as to who did what and when and why they did it. In our old attic, which was later consumed by fire, we had a couple of records that were called “Edison records.” Thomas A. Edison had a lot to do with the development of recordings of music and such. His records, that we had in our attic, were almost a quarter of an inch thick and quite heavy. We used to play them on our RCA Victor wireless turntable in the 1940's. We also learn much about such people as Morse, Eli Whitney, Fulton and a host of other people who invented things that are important to us even today. Who could forget the famous Alexander Graham Bell, the father of the telephone. (I used to work for the old “Bell” system.) Even on Jeopardy, people are often asked who invented this or that and they come for with the name of the person who did it. After all, we give credit to where credit is due. We do that in most cases except when it comes to things we don't understand or want to admit. Exodus 20:3 says, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” 

          Most of us have heard of or have memorized the Ten Commandments. We know the story and how it involved Moses on top of Mount Sinai. We recognize that they were written on tables of stone and preserved for a long time in the Ark of the Covenant. We had replicas in many government areas at one time. The number of places is diminishing in these days due to “pagan” influence in the world today. In our effort to erase the idea of God in our culture, we have had to come up with other names of those accountable for great acts, both good and bad. We have substituted “Mother Nature” as the one being given the blame or the source of the acts that go on in the world. In the Biblical account of the flood, we are confident that it was caused by God and not by “mother nature” or “mother earth.” It was God that caused the sun dial to reverse in the days of Hezekiah. It was God that caused the Red Sea to divide and give the Israelites dry ground in order to pass through the divided sea. It was God that sent manna for six days a week for forty years. It was God that cause the shoes not to wear out for forty years of walking around in the wilderness. It was God that caused the walls of Jericho to fall down. Of course, it was God who created the universe and everything in it. It was God who rolled away the stone in front of the tomb. Mother Nature and Mother Earth did nothing and are fictional characters equal to Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck. When it comes to anything that takes place in time and space, the Only Source is God Himself. We need to give credit where credit is due. When we cry out for salvation, only God can answer with that which we need. When we search for peace and safety and hope in the midst of the world's problems, it is only God that can give the true answer. When it rains after a drought, it is God that brings the rain, not mother nature. Out attitude should be the attitude of Abraham when he reasoned with God about Sodom and Gomorrah when Abraham said, “That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” God always does that which is right. Praise God today for all that He does.