What’s on your throne?
“ And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth..” – Exodus 20 v1-15
Everyone worships something. Idolatry has become something in which we all are victim to. For some of us, we picture idolatry in a form of a golden calf, or a statue like people in the Old Testament. But today, the world has transformed so much that we begin to have substitutes for those objects.
We adore celebrities, supermodels, cars, and gadgets. Don’t get me wrong. Those things are not bad. But as humans, we tend to make an object into a subject in which we turn to. Without realizing it sometimes, we begin to worship our possessions. We start worshipping footballers, or famous singers.
Why does that happen? I believe it is because we are wired that way. We are all worship beings. We have to worship something. But the intend there is that we direct all our worship to God, and God alone. Worship is for God because He deserves it. It is suppose to be that direction pointing towards Jesus. But human beings are good in redirecting our worship and attention towards something we create.
The dictionary defines the word “God” as something in which we make supreme. We all worship, but it’s whether we worship the God of the universe, or the god of ourselves. What do you give ultimate worth to? We are slaves to our possessions because if we cannot give those things up, then you don’t own it. It owns you.
So what’s on your throne?
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