“I will make it go forth,” declares the Lord of hosts,
“and it will enter the house of the thief
and the house
of the one who swears falsely by My name;
and it will spend the night within that house
and consume it with its timber and stones.”
Zechariah 5:4
My Sister-in-Law works for Pepsi. Pepsi is the company that puts money in her bank account. They are the company who “puts food on the table”. Therefore, she supports Pepsi. She drinks Pepsi within her own home. She encourages her family and friends to drink Pepsi. She even supports the Nascar driver, Jeff Gordon, who advertises for Pepsi on his car and in commercials.
She would never be caught dead in a Coke shirt, or with a coke product in her hand, if she had the choice of the two, Pepsi is her choice. Coke is the competition. Coke and Pepsi are both fighting for your attention. They both are after your business. My sister-in-law knows this very well, so she supports Pepsi both in her public and private life. She never knows when she will have the opportunity to reach a new customer.
You can see how she does not swear falsely by her employer’s name. Anyone who knows her can testify to that truth.
This morning as I was studying through the book of Zechariah I read Zechariah 5:4, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and I thought of how my sister-in-law’s example with her company is a perfect example of application for this verse.
If we profess the name Christian. Then we are saying, I am a servant of Christ, I work for God. God is the one who not only puts food on our table, but the very life blood in our veins, the breathe of life in our lungs, and if we are truly His, His very own Spirit within us.
Therefore we should likewise “support” Him. We should serve Him within our own homes. We should encourage our family and friends to partake of Him. We should advertise for Him in our public and private lives. We should support those who support Him.
We should never be caught dead advertising for His competition. You see His competition is after the attention of the same one’s He seeks. Satan and God fights for the souls of man. They both fight for the attention of hearts. So we should desire not to be caught dead advertising for the enemy of our Life-Giver in our body. We should not be caught dead choosing the works of Satan when we have the works of God before us.
We never know when we will have the opportunity to reach a new believer.
Let us not be of those who swears falsely by His name…
Today let us examine our hearts, our minds, our lives and see who we are promoting in both our public and private lives… whose works will you choose to advertise today? Who will be the choice of your generation?