Idolatry is real and it is more destructive than anything we can imagine.
Idolatry is believing that social media is actually social when it fact is is constantly tearing us apart.
Idolatry is believing the number at the bottom of our bank statements is indicative of our true worth and value in the world.
Idolatry is believing that if our kids get on the right team, or the right score on a test, or into the right college everything will finally be forever perfect.
Idolatry is believing that the names on our bumper stickers are more important and determinate than our relationship with people who happen to have a different name on their bumper sticker.
Idolatry is believing we can know everything we ever need to know about another person by what type of music they listen to.
And God says, “I am tearing down your idols, I’m busting them up into a million tiny little pieces. Nothing can ever get between us.”
Faith in the Lord is a crazy thing. Keep at it long enough, keep singing these songs and praying these prayers, and all the sudden the idols don’t wield the power they once held over us.
Faith is the antidote to idolatry.
Faith, the faith gifted to us by and through the church, will keep us from putting all of our hope and effort in things that just aren’t up to the task.
Faith teaches us to cherish and build and rejoice in small things.
Faith, which is just another word for trust, tastes like raspberries and cream, it sounds like Bach’s cello suite No.1 in G major, it looks like the stars stretched across the night sky, it smells like freshly baked chocolate brownies, it feels like someone holding our hand when we don’t have anything else to hold onto.
