Demolishing Idols
“For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him … .They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator.”
(Romans 1:21, 25)
In his excellent book Future Grace, John Piper teaches that "sin is what you do when you are not fully satisfied in God." The same may be said about idolatry: It is what we do when we are not fully satisfied in God. In other words, if we are not fulfilled and secure in God we will inevitably seek other sources of happiness and security. Therefore, if you want to squeeze the idols out of your heart and leave no room for them to return make it your top priority to aggressively pursue an all-consuming worship for the living God. Ask Him to teach you how to love, fear, and trust Him more than anything in this world. Replacing idol worship with worship of the true God involves several steps.
Last week we discussed the last two parts of the life cycle of an idol: judgment and conflict. We have learned that our unmet desires can lead to idols if we do not give them to God. If we have unmet desires they cause us to think that we deserve something and force us to seek earthly comfort for our desires. Those comforts lead us to judge others and even punish them because we despise those things in our lives. This week we will look at five steps to crush idols once and for all.
