You can sing all that you want to, and still get it wrong.

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But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. - John 4:23

Clear the stage, make some space for the one who deserves it. 

I am an offender of idolatry. It's interesting because I've heard this sermon so many times. I've heard all the verses in the bible that talk about ridding yourself of your idols. What I never really did was open my mind to the fact that I was a perpetual offender. The fact of being completely humbled before my Lord, Jesus Christ I know that I never could have been putting Him, the only one, above all of my idols. Understanding that idols are anything that keeps you from Him. ANYTHING and by ANYTHING, I mean EVERYTHING that I put before Him.  My thoughts, actions, words included as well as things. 

I've never thought of that before, my THOUGHTS, ACTIONS, and WORDS as idolatry. Because anything that I can not stop obsessing over in my mind, is taking up time that I should be spending with my Savior. Every one of my actions should reflect my love for my God's undying love. All of my words that I speak should utterly reflect my hearts utmost desire of my life that He has planned for me. Anything that comes between you blistering your knees from repenting and not ceasing in prayer is an idol. The only way to rid yourself of your idols are to shine a light in every corner of your life. Reveal yourself before The One who created  you, who knows anyways but is just yearning for you to step up. 

Even good things can become idols, and while reveling and boasting seem good at the time, it is a grave disservice to idolize anything or anybody. The ending result is God's wrath, on you and the idols. 

God WILL NOT BE ECLIPSED.

A.W. Tozer: "Christ calls men to carry a cross; we call them to have fun in His name. He calls them to forsake the world; we assure them that if they but accept Jesus the world is their oyster. He calls them to suffering; we call them to enjoy all the bourgeois comforts of modern civilization affords. He calls them to self- abnegation and death; we call them to spread out like green bay trees or perchance even to become starts in a pitiful fifth-rate religious zodiac."



We have such a mixed up view of God, because our little minds cannot fathom such a thing. God's grace will save a man, but it will NOT save a man and his idols. Our life is a walking way of worship, are you walking the right way? Our reward is in heaven and not of this earth. I know that I need to set myself straight with my thoughts of how I want to run things. He is refining us by fire everyday that we take a single step. 

So that the tested genuineness of your faith-more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire- may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. - 1 Peter 1:7


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