...these men have set up their idols in their heart...-Ezekiel 14:3
The human heart is a perpetual idol factory.-John Calvin
What's your idol?
What is it that you love (even if only sometimes) more than God? That becomes (even if only sometimes), in effect, your god?
I could spot your idols (that speck of dust in your eye) from across the room.
Strange, though, I cannot see the log in my own eye though I have a mirror (James 1:23) right in front of me.
So easy to overlook our own failings, is it not?
But if I gaze intently into that mirror, I begin to see it. An idol.
I'll tell you mine if you'll tell me yours.
Ease. Comfort. Like those Israelites in Amos 6:4, I lie as it were on my bed of ivory and it requires much more effort than I would care to admit to desire to get up and be about those things that are required of me.
This time of my own that I have desired since forever has become a snare, my idol.
Pray for me as I seek to tear down the idol that my heart has made.
What is your idol?
