No Idols Or Graven Images
By Brand X
13th November, 2021
THE LAMP DEVOTION
Leviticus 26:1
‘You shall not make idols for yourselves; neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God
This commandment can be considered number one among the commandments God has given humanity. What humanity is forbidden from doing here is not just the making of physical items and worshipping them. The making of the idols is the tail end of the rebellion. The rebellion starts when man’s heart moves away from God and his/her allegiance shifts to some other object, be it a deity or otherwise. Once your heart goes away from God anything can fit in there.
What this means is that worshipping of idols is not only making physical idols and bowing to them. There are people who have not made physical idols of any kind but are worshipping idols. Anything that competes with the position only God occupies in your heart is an idol. Now you can start the list of items that have become idols in your life.
There are some who value their property more than their relationship with God. No one will call them idol worshippers, but in the context being discussed here, they are idol worshippers. They may have asked Jesus to be their Lord, but they still harbor idols. Remember the first commandment of not worshipping idols was given not to unbelievers but to believers.
Each of us must ensure that there is nothing standing between us and God, because anything like that is the likeness of a graven image. Remove all those obstacles from your fellowship with God and you will be blessed.
Prayer
1. Celebrate your heavenly Father who is above all and is worthy of your praise.
2. Pray that you will have the courage to clear your life of anything that is becoming an idol.
3. Father, please help me to live the rest of my life free from worshipping anything in the semblance of an idol.
Declarations
I declare that God my heavenly Father is above all His creation. He is before anything He created. He made me above all other creation, so they are all beneath my feet. God alone deserves my worship. I will not subject myself to anything that is not God. I declare in the name of Jesus that nothing is worthy of my praise, only the God of heaven.
 
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