So when was the last time you worshipped an idol?
When most people hear the word “idol” they think of the reality TV show with singers or an Indiana Jones movie or primitive people bowing before some kind of golden statue. While traditional idol worship still occurs in many parts of the world - internal idol worship within the heart is universal. John Calvin once wrote that “the human heart is a perpetual idol factory."
It’s easy to think that idols are bad things and so we’ll simply see and avoid them. The problem is idols are rarely bad things - most often they are good things. The greater their good - the more we think they'll satisfy our deepest needs. So we subtly make good things into ultimate things. We make career, family, power or even religion the centre of our lives - we make them idols and we worship them. Thinking if we can achieve them - we will be fulfilled, significant and secure.
God has designed us for fulfillment in Him and He is truly bigger and better than anything else in the world! In this series we’ll contrast the “me-gods” with the Good News of how Jesus is most worthy of our heart's worship because when we find Him - He fulfills us and if we fail Him - He forgives us. Nothing else in the world does that.