According to Webster, “an idol is a representation or a symbol of an
object of worship”. To worship is “to show great respect, adoration and
devotion to an object or a deity”. From the two definitions above, it therefore
means that not only physically carved images or what we call in Africa ‘smaller
gods’ could be idols. In addition to the physically carved materials, statues,
trees and other images that people bow for, anything that stands in the way of
God in your life is an idol. Asked why? It is because it creates a resistance
on the way God needs to pass before reaching you.
Your “turning” on bed on bed instead of waking up to pray is an idol
since it erects a barrier between you and God. With this concept, we can
clearly tell that even your loved ones; your girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse and
even your parents can easily turn into idols, preventing your hands to reach
those of God. Take this from me or not, you can also be an idol to yourself. If
worry about your comrades too much than you think about God and every action of
yours is involve around them, named yourself an idol creator, because you are
more of those who carry the tools to invent the 'smaller gods’.
An excessive business schedule that occupies your calendar instead of
giving way for God to find just a little space to occupy is also a well
decorated idol. If you are among those people whose daily activity is to run up
and down, extra classes here and there, business, jokes, movies, physical exercise
all having traffic in your life and God cannot find His way in, am sorry to
inform you that call yourself an idolater and pack your luggage and prepare for
where idolaters will later be deposited.
There are many idols in the world today, and so there are many idolaters
too respectively. Your mission now should be towards identifying the idols of
your life and having them demolished before end of time. Is it your education? Your
beauty? Your occupation? Your talent? Your hobbies? Do you find it exciting through
a 90 minutes football game, and then with 3 minutes in prayer, it’s all about
dozing off? Can you crack jokes progressively for 30 minutes but cannot lead a denominational
prayer as such? Can you talk to your boyfriend or girlfriend for as long as one
hour on phone, but cannot talk to God just the same? Are you enticed by the
world as far as worldly songs, worldly movies, worldly games, etc. are
concerned? Oh no. Don’t find yourself on the lap of the world. Identify your
idols now; God is willing to find a way to pass in your life. Give him that
way!
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