Destroying Idols in Our Heart

King Asa of Judah Destroying Idols by Françoise de Nomé

“Dear children, keep yourselves from idols” (1 John 5:21)

Calvin said it well: “Hence we may infer, that man’s nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.”

That is you and I. Yes, you and I are not only busy cooking, and planning our homeschool year, and keeping a clean house, and helping our friends in need; we are not only busy with all the errands that make up our day to day life. We are, sad to say, busy forging idols in our hearts.

Idolatry is a sin, a very dangerous sin, which kills us, and draws out the sap of our lives little by little, if we don’t do something about it.


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