What Are You Worshiping?!?
In my last two blogs we answered the questions "What Is Worship" and "Why Do We Worship" If you haven't read those yet I highly recommend you do before you continue reading
Although worship was created and intended to be used to praise our creator the sinful humans that we are tend to Worship/Make Idols of other things such as
Social Media
Television
Our Image
YouTube
Video Games
Phones
Netflix's
School
Other People
And The List Goes On.......
Sometimes we don't even know that were worshiping something else and to me that's the scariest thing...Google defines worship as
The feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity.
For me I know when I'm worshiping something other than God, It's all I think about, and all I want to do. This is one of the many ways satin try's to pull us away from God.
Some people like call them "idols". When we put all our Energy, time, and attention into something other than God, we are making and worshiping idols.
One definition of the word "idol" I found is,
A person or thing that is greatly admired, loved, or revered.
The bible addresses idols in many ways here are a few
Little children, keep yourself from idols. - 1 John 15:21
3 "Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them?
4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the Lord will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols,..... - Ezekiel 14:3-4
And they served {Worshiped} Idols, of which the LORD has said to them,
"You shall not do this." - 2 Kings 17:12
Because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statues, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols. - Ezekiel 20:16
"I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you." - Ezekiel 36:25
God knows we have idols and it's not new to Him. He knew we were going to make idol's and worship them. But God is a God of forgiveness and as we read in the last verse he will cleanse us from all our idols. In fact he wants to clean us and set us free.
STORY TIME....
3 Years ago I had social media, and I would spend so much time on it. It was ridiculous! I didn't realize how much time I was spending on it until I gave it up. I was always on my phone and always checking notifications, whether I was with friend out to lunch, with my family at church, at school, anywhere and everywhere. IT WAS MY IDOL. That's why I decide to completely get ride of it. Well, actually I decided to fast and man, those 2 months felt so good. So I decided to get rid of it all together. And there is not a single day that goes by that I regret making that decision.
{Other reasons why I gave up social media are going to be discussed in a future blog}
So in conclusion the best way I have found to deal with idols is Giving them to God and getting rid of them COMPLETELY. It's going to be hard but its worth it completely! No one said it was going to be easy.
SO WHAT ARE YOU WORSHIPING?!?!
I would love to hear from y’all!!! Feel free to Email me with any questions you may have! Or any topics you would like me to cover in the future!
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