I don't have idols, do I?

Today’s reading in Ezekiel included a passage that jumped out at me in Ezekiel 6:9:

then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.

The idea of God having been broken is a stretch for me. I generally think of God in a Psalm 115:3 sense, where God is a happy God because He accomplishes His will. But if I believe that God is as I like to think of Him, rather than as He has revealed Himself in the scriptures, then I have fashioned an idol of my own imagination.

As a 21st century American, I like to think that the only danger of idols I face is my own misconceptions about God. But while I don’t bow down and sacrifice to physical idols, there are many things in my life that would take the affection that belongs to God alone. God is as broken over my “whoring heart” as He was over Israel’s.

One of the best explanations of modern idolatry I’ve seen is this message from Tim Keller, the author of The Prodigal God, which the Life Groups will be studying after we finish James. It’s about one hour long, but well worth watching.

Posted by David Fenton on Feb 24, 11:26 PM