Personal Sharing — Why???

Day 4843: Enjoy the newness a Spring weekend brings!

Scripture: “You shall have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. I John 5:21

Thoughts/questions: Out of the mouth of babes!!! My 6-year-old granddaughter was riding home from school, and she and her brother were talking about the Biblical men in the fiery furnace. She asked her brother why they were in there, and he told her it was because they refused to worship the idols they had made.

Her response was, “If they made it, why would they worship it”? Some real wisdom there!!! We in the Western world don’t make actual idols much, but we have them and many are self-made and deserve the question my granddaughter asked: Why worship something we ourselves make???

Self-made man – an expression often used as a compliment, but that self-made person could set themselves up to be their idol as they ‘pulled themselves up by their bootstraps.’ Some make quite a financial portfolio and it becomes their idol/god. Many create a comfortable life and what they made becomes what they live for – their idol. Some take their self-made success in their career and worship it.

So yes, we do worship things we’ve made as foolish as that sounds even to a 6-year-old. Check yourself! Make sure God is your God, not something you have made and then that became your little god!

Suggested prayer: Lord God, help me to keep You on the throne of my life and nothing else . . .