1 John 5:21
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Today's Thought: Knowing the Lord Jesus Christ keeps us from following after idols and other things of the world.
Hideyoshi, a Japanese warlord who ruled over Japan in the late 1500s, commissioned a colossal statue of Buddha for a shrine in Kyoto. It took 50,000 men five years to build, but the work had scarcely been completed when the earthquake of 1596 brought the roof of the shrine crashing down and wrecked the statue. In a rage Hideyoshi shot an arrow at the fallen colossus. "I put you here at great expense," he shouted, "and you can't even look after your own temple." (Today in the Word, MBI, August, 1991, p. 23.)
We may not worship false gods, but we face false gods in our values - materialism, self image, security, leisure, sensuality, among others. If our lives revolve on something more than God, then we are worshiping idols in our lives. John the Beloved reminded Christian believers to keep themselves from all appearance of anything or anyone that may stop them from worshiping the true God.
Let us be diligent to consider the idols in our lives. Let us uproot them and shoot arrow at them before they take possession of our hearts and led us astray from the presence of the Lord.
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