An idol of the heart is something I worship and fashion on a throne in my heart and mind. We all do this CONSTANTLY and are by nature SINFUL. NO ONE IS GOOD, no NOT ONE. Some famous dude said, "My heart is a perpetual factory of idols."
1 Sam 15:23-FOR REBELLION IS AS THE SIN OF WITCHCRAFT, AND STUBBORNNESS IS AS INIQUITY AND IDOLATRY…
So even STUBBORNESS is an idol of the heart? I'm DOOMED without intervention and fight this daily. Am I alone here? (Can I get an AMEN?)
I sometimes GO FOR MORE THAN A DAY without praying or thoughtful acknowledgement and many times just out of forgetfulness. It's not my responsibility to change my OWN heart or have any desire to do so because there is not ONE good bone in my carnal body or mind. I certainly AM ACCOUNTABLE, but the desire to CHANGE and do good comes from ABOVE. My very FAITH is a gift. I have no FAITH except that which is given to me. If I want to change it is because it was planted there by HIM. Anything good in me, is HIS doing.
The world believes we are supposed to be responsible for the good in our lives, set our own FATE, but how, when there is NO GOOD in us. We were born to FALL and STUMBLE, because it is in our nature to have idols of the heart. It is carnally unnatural to love the LORD GOD with all your heart, mind and soul because without the LORD GOD I can do NOTHING.
I have been raised to be self aware, self taught, self motivated, self this, self that, successful, never fail etc and this makes me want to SOB because I MOURN the idol in my heart that is dying.
Something i've had on my mind for a while. Self righteousness really gets my goat and I've been stumbling on all of this for some time.
The irony is that now I am self righteous about not being self righteous, so i just replace one idol at a time.
Fight the good fight,
Jen