Keep Dancing With Him

After Amaziah came from the attack on the Edomites, he brought the gods of the Seirites and set them up as his gods. He worshiped before them and burned incense to them. - 2 Chronicles 25:14

After Amaziah (king of Judah) was granted a victory (by God) over the Seirites, he began to worship the idols of the same people that his army had defeated. It was as if he said, "Hey, Yahweh, thanks for bailing me out of that war thing. You were really there for me. I'll probably need you again someday, but for now I need to move on. Catch you later."

One of the most dangerous after-effects of a significant spiritual victory can be a return to self-reliance. The crisis that drove us to initially lean upon the Lord, once past, fades into the background and we return to a life of reliance upon the very idols that originally created the crisis we had averted!

In the southern US we have an old saying that goes like this. "Dance with the one that brung ya."  It is a country proverb that basically means, stick to what you know or stand by the principles that brought you to a place of success. In this instance, I would say that God alone gives us the victory and to abandon Him once the victory has been won reveals a weak (or absent) faith and an utter lack of spiritual discipline.

Don't forget the One who brought you this far in your successful spiritual journey and keep "dancing" with Him!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. - Martin Luther