Something I read this morning:"The things that the Lord has apportioned among the nations must not be worshiped. Essential to the idea of idolatry is the desire for more things. The things that God has made must never be substituted for the God who made them. The connection between covetousness and idolatry is made explicitly when the new covenant scriptures speak of "greed, which is idolatry" (Col. 3:5). The identification of covetousness with idolatry serves to expose the central sin of the present age, which is the worship of things rather than the God who made them. The shopping mall has become the temple of today, and the consumption of more and more things has become god. This turning to things as a substitute for knowing, loving, and serving God is the central sin of mankind in every generation. So it should not be surprising to find the prohibition against all forms of idolatry as the central focus of the law of God."
O. Palmer Robertson, Christ of the Prophets, p. 87
A true idol of my heart....as is obvious.------------>
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