Idols aren’t idle

Idols are things that we create to represent God. Sometimes we confuse these things with God. Idols are often things that we worship. They are things that we will protect from others — because we equate the idol with God.

Idols can be anything.

What are the things in your life that you aren’t willing to question? What are the things that you will defend from others touching — or possibly even talking about?

Often we have idols, but we don’t really want to even acknowledge that they are idols. We call them other things and give excuses for why they can’t be examined or exposes for what they are.

In politics, they are called “third rail of politics.” These are the subjects that you aren’t supposed to talk about or even offer proposals to improve or update. Some examples might be Social Security, abortion, guns, etc. They could be, but then again, they might not be for you.

In church, we call these things “But this is the way we’ve always done it.” There is a variety of things that could be considered an idol. And then again, it’s not universal — it depends on each person and how they view these things: As things or as something more.

We have these in our personal lives too — things, habits, stuff, you name it. The thing by itself is not the issue. Money is a good example — A common idol is money, but it doesn’t have to be. Money, on it’s own, is neither good nor bad. It just is. It is a tool to be used to assist society in exchanging things of value. It…