Gospel in Life – Idolatry Pt 2

Posted by Scott Shoopman on Jun 9, 2010 | Comments Off

In my last post I mentioned that I might stay in the Idolatry session for one more week and my group graciously allowed my need to continue to dig into a dark heart. We watched the session video again to get us started and it brought a question to mind, one that I asked our group last week.

Timothy Keller’s question (paraphrased) “What is it that would cause life to be no longer worth living if you did not have it…”

My question; If God was ripped from my grasp, would it cause my life to lose meaning?

The first commandment from God is to have no other gods before me. Idols. That would assume that I “idolize” God. My fear is that I do not. If not, why not? Is it that I have something other than God that is my “overmastering positive passion”? So many of the “things” that I think may be idols do not seem to hold that position. All the activities of a day get rolled into one big event of surviving, no idols there, just the daily grind, right?

I wonder if it is more difficult for Americans to identify their idols than other cultures. We have so bought into this “American Way of Life” that I/we have difficulty separating the idols from the whole. Don’t get me wrong, God wants us to live and eat and take care of our family, but to what end and what extent?

I am still working through the implications of idols in my life. How about you? I would like to hear how you are working through this command.