Therefore speak to them and tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Any man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will be brought to give him an answer of the matter in view of the multitude of his idols,We have a bad habit of setting up idols in our own hearts. We're not so big on the physical thing we bow to in the modern day, but idols of the heart, or the mind, are still alive and well. Sometimes it's a person; sometime it's a thing, or an idea, or just a faulty notion of God. But those idols do exist.
So, what do we do about them? First, we have to identify them. In a video my class watched today, the question was put to us, "What keeps you from growing closer to God?" It's a question that I think would help very much in identifying these idols of the mind, for they are in effect the same question.
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