Thursday, March 5, 2009
Ezekiel 14:1-8 Idols in our heart
Today's reading is a very stern warning from God regarding people who have set up idols in their hearts. "I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among My people. So you will know that I am the LORD."
The bible described these people as "these men have set up their idols in their hearts and have put right before their faces the stumbling block of their iniquity", "separates himself from Me (God)" I like the translation in The Message,
"these people have installed idols in their hearts. They have embraced the wickedness that will ruin them."
What are the idols in our heart tha will ruin us and separate us from the Lord? Our career, our hobby, our materialism or even our love ones? Have I love these more than I love God? Even though these may be harmless or even good things that we hold more dearly than our God, they are going to ruin us, because they separated us from our God. When I say I have no time for God but have time to play or do other things, isn't that an indication that that recreation or things have become an idol in my heart?
June
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