“Idolatry”
Worship God Only
We have to be mindful that we reserve
our worship for God and Him only. An
idol is anything that we honor above God.
It is acceptable to acknowledge the goodness or usefulness of something
but we should be careful that we do not adore the object or person above the
adoration that we have for God.
An idol may even be something that
God issued to us to serve a good purpose.
In Second Kings 18:4, we read about Hezekiah destroying the bronze snake
that was erected by Moses to save the lives of the Israelites that had been
bitten by snakes in Numbers 21. Hezekiah
had to destroy the image because, even though God used it to save the lives of
everyone who would look at it, the Israelites decided to worship what God had provided to heal them
rather than reserving their worship for the healer Himself. Even though God may place people in our path
who can supply us with information that may be essential to our success in this
life, we are to reserve the highest level of adoration for God.
