At Senior High this term we’ve been thinking about the 7 deadly sins. Often, we talk about sin as idolatry… For example in the bible greed is spoken of as idolatry (Col 3:5). So when we love our money more than God, we make money a god and worship it. I was reflecting this week on why? Is it really that we’re worshipping the money and have made it an idol or is the underlying problem that we’ve made ourselves the idols? Really, we love money when it serves our needs and our desires, when we can use it to get more stuff for me to make me feel good and feed my desires.
Watching compass on Sunday night has further confirmed this idea for me that the real problem of idolatry is not that we love stuff but that we love ourselves. There was a guy on who had a bit of an alternative religion where it was all about meditation and having faith. But the faith he was talking about was faith in yourself!!
When we look at the world and see idolatry on steroids I think it’s because we all ultimately worship the idol of self. Come to 645 in 2 weeks to see what Jesus says about this…
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