One great besetting sin of ancient Israel was idolatry...
And we who
are the spiritual Israel are vexed with a tendency to the same folly!
We no longer bow down to sticks and stones but Mammon
still intrudes his golden calf...
And the shrines of pride are
not forsaken.
SELF in various forms, struggles to subdue the chosen
ones under its dominion...
And the flesh sets up its altars wherever it
can find space for them.
Children are often the cause of much sin in believers.
The Lord is
grieved when He sees us doting upon them above measure...
They will live to be
as great a curse to us as Absalom was to David, or they will be
taken from us to leave our homes desolate.
If Christians desire to
grow thorns to stuff their sleepless pillows...let them dote on their
children!
It is truly said that "they are not gods," for the objects of our
foolish devotion are very doubtful blessings...
The solace which
they yield us now is dangerous...
And the help which they can give us
in the hour of trouble is little indeed.
Why, then, are we so bewitched with vanities?
We pity the poor heathen who adore a god of stone and yet worship a
god of gold!
Where is the vast superiority between a god of wood and
one of flesh?
The principle, the sin, the folly
is the same in either case...
Only that in our case the crime is more
aggravated because we have more light...
And sin in the face of it.
The heathen
bows to a false deity but he has never known the true God.
But we commit two
evils, inasmuch as we forsake the living God and turn unto
idols!
The dearest idol I have known, Whatever that idol be; Help me to tear it from Thy throne, And worship only Thee!
~Charles Spurgeon~
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