LOOKING AT OUR IDOLS
Today's reading: Isaiah 40-44

"The person who made the idol never stops to reflect, Why, it's just a block of wood! I burned half of it for heat and used it to bake my bread and roast my meat. How can the rest of it be a god? Should I bow down to worship a chunk of wood?" Isaiah 44:19 NLT

Idol-an object of extreme devotion.

Don't have one you say?

Really?

Sadly, most of us do.

No, it's probably not a little figurine set up on a shelf.

Maybe it's not a formed image of gold, wood or metal that you bow down to and pray.

Maybe it's not even an image at all.

Maybe, just maybe, it's an emotion that is worshiped.

A perceived right we fight bravely to hold.

Might it be control? The desire to be in control. The need for control. The false sense of security control gives us.

Oh, don't think I'm talking to you--I'm talking to me.

I need to take a long hard look at my day. At how I use my time. At what gets the majority of my attention. At what I determine needs the best of me. At what my vocabulary says about my idols, or my God. At what others might say would be my driving force.

God, help me see the idols in my life for what they really are--sad, faulty, ridiculous replacements for You. Amen.