What is Idolatry?

What is Idolatry?

Posted on January 4, 2009 Updated on January 3, 2009

Memorise: “They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them” (Psalm 115:8)

Read: Psalm 115:4-8  

Pastor E. Adeboye

What you serve determines your destiny. You would become what you idolize. You conform to what you serve. If you serve a cow, you will gradually lose your human instincts and imbibe the traits of a cow. If you worship a snake, you will wriggle like one.

Have you seen someone possessed of a serpentine spirit during deliverance? You would think you are seeing a human snake! Never serve what you don’t want to become, because you will surely become what you serve.

Idolatry does a lot of havoc to the idolater. From today’s reading, there are certain things relevant to the discourse. First, idolaters make their idols of silver and gold. Silver and gold in this sense are a means of exchange. Every idolater becomes a means of exchange, or articles of merchandize in the hands of the devil. If you serve idols, you lose your worth and become vulnerable in the hands of the idol served.

 Idolatry has reduced idolaters to mere commodities from the priceless value which they were created to be. No idolater is secured as the fellow may be required as sacrifice by the gods served. Hence calls for donation of loved ones, parts of one’s body and even one’s life as sacrifice to idols, witches and occult groups, keep coming to those in league with the dark kingdom.

Another lesson here is that just as idols have no senses, the idolater gradually loses the sense of smell, touch, sight, taste and hearing. The implication of this is that the idolater becomes most vulnerable, the most insecure individual around. They cannot smell when danger is near. They are blind to spiritual truths and even normal physical realities. They become less sensitive and unfeeling because their idol lacks such traits.

Natural sensitivity is lost in the process of idolatrous practices. Why do you think a woman who became a witch in order to ‘protect’ her children from enemies, would later present such children as food in their coven? It is because, she has lost the heart she was created with, and has become insensitive to others, like the idol she serves. If your sensibilities, feelings, and sense of direction are becoming extinct, check yourself.

You might be idolizing something. You cannot serve God and not feel for your fellow human being. If you are wicked to your neigbour particularly a fellow believer, there is an idol in your life draining your sensibilities. Repent and pull down every idol today.

Whatever has occupied the number one position in your life is an idol. If it is not God, it can take Heaven from you. Dethrone it today!