I’ve been coming across readings and devotions that have centered around idols quite frequently lately.
Usually when that happens, it causes me to stop and take notice.
I started doing a mental note: do I have any idols?
In the past I’ve been quick to deny that I have any idols. After all, I’m a God fearing woman who knows better than to worship idols, right?
Wrong.
As the topic has come up so many times lately, I decided to ask God to reveal to me what idol/idols I have in my life.
I was not pleased with the answer.
There have been many times that I’ve put what I’ve wanted before God. I can think of too many situations where I knew the right thing to do and didn’t do it because that thing was so important to me.
I must admit, I was ashamed of what the answer was. I was even ashamed to admit it out loud to my closest friend. But God reminds me that there is no condemnation in Him, and I choose not to beat myself up.
Do you have an idol? An idol is not just a statue we worship. It’s anything we choose to put before God. Anything.
God reminds us that we should have no other God’s before Him.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for pointing out our flaws, not so that you can taunt us and keep us in bondage, but so that you can give us life and life more abundantly because we are free in you. Help us to not put anyone or anything ahead of you, and if we are, please open our eyes so that we may see it.