I need to clean my house, I need to clean my heart! Today I’m working on evicting three idols I have living with me, they’ve been with me for a long time, and I kinda like them. But they don’t need to be here any more, they don’t help me, rather they are the ones who keep pulling me down and away from my Savior Jesus Christ. In themselves they aren’t all bad, but in the context of my heart, they have been a problem.

1) False Self Significance: This guy, he keeps popping his head up, and I find him the most on “Twitter” and “Facebook”, especially in the comments. He says things and forwards things, to get attention. Maybe it’s a silly cat video, maybe it’s a vile attack on someone. The brutal fact is, I don’t need him. He is an idol of my own making. I need to cling to Jesus Christ, who is my only self significance, because I have died to myself, and now I live as Christ.

2) Comfort: This guy, he is a tricky one, he has two buddies Sloth and Apathy. He is the guy who says… “Read your Bible… no, go ahead, turn on the TV” Sloth is constantly telling me, “You can get around to doing that later.” and Apathy tells me, “Go ahead, Watch TV, Tune out, and stop caring about people around you.” These guys are brutal, I’m going to cut the cord that they keep me tied down with, and clean them out. My only comfort in this life is Christ, not sloth and apathy which are false comforts.

3) Control: This guy and I have been best friends, we’ve been determined to take over the world together! We started with our kids, telling them what they could do, being happy or mad at them, as if our kids aren’t capable of making the right decisions. He even told me, “You need to control this, God doesn’t have time, He’s too busy”, and that was a complete lie! The two of us, we are a big reason my kids probably don’t like me. I didn’t let them fail, I wasn’t gentle in responding to failure. I even tried to control my wife, to the point she felt she couldn’t do anything with me. This guy needs to go, The false sense of control isn’t reality. The only control I have is over me, and even that needs to be in complete submission to Jesus Christ.

I can see now that these idols I’ve created need to be smashed, they serve no purpose.

A quote I often see attributed to John Calvin: “The human heart is a factory of idols.” It’s so true, I would rather cut down a tree, spend time carving it and polishing it, and making it into something of no value, and then spend time at it’s alter, rather than worship at the feet of Jesus Christ. As I focus on the eternal, I find that world is quickly moving by, and God will use me. I need to stop the Idol worship,and focus on putting up treasures in Heaven.

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