In the world of technology, things are always changing. They change so fast that if you're not on top of it, you'll be left behind. There was a time when LOL meant "Lots of Love" when did that change?
Okay so let's go there together: BFF Best Friend Forever; LOL Laugh Out Loud; POS Parent Over Shoulder and last but not least IDOL...what is that?
That's exactly what I woke up asking myself this morning. Being alone in my room, I woke up and in my mind was making the decision as to whether to turn on the television or pick up my Bible and do my devotion. Yes, you read right. I actually had a debate in my mind. That's when it hit me. Could that television be my idol? No! I just wanted to watch the news and see the weather to prepare for the day. What about being spiritually prepared?
I love it when something is left up to us to define:
Don't take "too long" for lunch.
If we work and 8 hour day, two hours does not seem like "too long"
Don't eat "sweets" before dinner.
"Chips" before dinner don't qualify as sweets.
Don't spend "too much" at the mall.
So if I "have money" regardless of the amount, I can spend it.
Don't watch and "inappropriate" movie.
"Ratings" don't mean much anymore.
There is always justification when we are allowed to define things-including idols.
My devotion this morning was in 1 John 5:6-13. I read it and mediatated on it but I believe as I read further that the message for me was found at the end of the chapter, the verse that closes the book of First John.
Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. 1 John 5:21
I do not want anything to distract me from studying the Word of God. I don't want reading God's Word to compete with a blaring television or anything else. I don't want to make anything my idol.
I want to get to know my BFF by reading His Word and I want to LOL because His Word speaks to me, and I want to do it not because I have a POS but because I am His child and I love my Lord and Savior and want to get to know Him better.
IDOL? Do you have one?
Like a scarecrow in a melon patch, their idols can not speak, they must be carried because they can not walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good. Jeremiah 10:5
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