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Idols
“Therefore shall ye lay up these My words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes” (Deuteronomy 11:18).
This verse follows a warning about turning aside from the Lord to serve other gods. “Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them” (verse 16).
Most of us see the foolishness of bowing down and praying to idols, “the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell” (Deuteronomy 4:28). But there are many other kinds of idols that can take the place of the Lord in our hearts. For example, money, a friend, our car, getting an education, our job, and so on. There is nothing wrong with these things in themselves, as long as they don’t take our affections away from the Lord and trusting and following Him.
A preventative “medicine” to stop this is to fill our hearts with God’s Word. How much do we value the Scriptures? They are worth making a part of our daily routine…part of our regular diet.
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