Find your idol

When we think about idol, we often think it's about statue; a sculpture that representing a person, or an animal or an event. As Paul in Colossians 3:5 put it bluntly. - Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.

"The human heart is a factory of idols…Everyone of us is, from his mother's womb expert in inventing idols.” John Calvin,

They can be anything, praise of men, money, job, career, relationship, status, sport, movies, food, ministry, family, kids, spouse, acceptance, leisure, anything 'good', all of them are not 'idol' but they become idol when our heart cling to them not God, as if we have them we become more valuable, if we don't have them we become less valuable, like 'something is missing'. We are the only one who knows our idol, so we can't simply says to our fellow, that is your idol !!!. Although they can somehow indirectly or directly reveal our idol heart within.

Let us find our idol, and humbly admit it in front of God merciful, full of grace, He will replace our idol heart with Himself, like a woman at the well, Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

At the end we can says - "God, You are more powerful, more beautiful, more enjoyable, more satisfying, more thrilling, more delightful, more everything compare to whatever in this world", it's a life time war againts our heart, that will always have a tendency to produce idol.