Idolatry

"You shall have no other gods before me."
-Exodus 20:3

I don't know what it is that got me thinking about this, but it recently occurred to me that most people here at Bible college don't seem to be serving the right god. What is your god? Is it money? A job? A computer? A car? A girl? A boy? A building? A place? A band? Yourself? Etc. The list could go on and on of things that people make their god. We all have within us an innate need to worship something. Hopefully that something is God.

It seems like our gods can become very demanding, and we don't even realize it. They demand our time, our money, and our sleep. We can even sacrifice other relationships to please whatever our god is. The difference between a god that we set up and the God is clear but easy to forget. When we sacrifice of ourselves for God its worth it. Everything else will suck us in and leave use worse off than we were when we started. Maybe this is just something you have to experience for yourself, and maybe I'm just writing this to remind myself. I hate the cycle of lifting something up on a pedestal only to find that it is hollow and unproductive. It seems ridiculous how people in other cultures can bow down and worship statues, but we do exactly the same thing in a different way.

God inspires me. God transforms me. God makes me more than my mind can imagine. God uses me. God blesses me. God works with me. God leads me. God is worth worshiping.