Who Is Your Idol?


 

I remembered during my high school days, I used to love “Thalia” with a different level of admiration. I kept posters of her, watched her drama series and I even hate it when someone distracts me in the middle of watching her TV show. Worst? I ended my high school entrance exam earlier just to catch her TV series “Marimar”; I left 2 pages unanswered just not to miss any of the episodes. There’s no replay on youtube or facebook yet. Often having day dreams, making stories in my head, and her, as the main character. I’m the director and script writer of my own stories. Most of the time, I’m pre-occupied with these thoughts.

Are you somewhat like me in this era? Do you prefer using your time stalking your idols on social media? Are you keeping their pictures inside your mobile phones or keeping posters of them? If that is so, then obviously, you have your idol. Idol means a person or thing that is greatly admired, loved, or revered similar as god, hero or an icon. Maybe it’s time for you to recheck your hearts whether you have already replaced God with them. 

In Exodus 20:3 says, “You shall have no other gods before me”. And in Matthew 22:37-38 it says, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment”. So anything or person that you adore more above him is your God. Let’s be reminded that God is a jealous God. (Exodus 34:14) No one shall be loved above Him, including your loved ones and all the things that you value in this world such as riches, glory, power, fame, etc. Your first love should always belong to Him. 

Deuteronomy 5:8 also says, “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth”. Clearly said that graven images should not be built in the first place to be worshipped. In Micah 5:13, “And I will cut off your carved images and your pillars from among you, and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands”. 

We can not serve two masters at the same time, it’s either we hate or we love the other, devote or despise the other. (Matthew 6:24) We cannot love God and be entwined with the system of this world. 

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