Listen Church! Many Christians believe they no longer serve idols. Let me ask us all a few questions... when we check our bank account today... after we've taken out money for our expenses, food, rent, mortgage, etc., where does our money go then? Then when we check our time today... after we've taken time out for our needs, job, kids, etc., where does our free time go? And when we check our thoughts... after we've focused on our needs, work, relationships, etc., where do our thoughts go? And finally, when we check our hearts... after we've answered these questions about what we spend our money, time, and thoughts on... are we free enough to say our idols are made of our hobbies? Or our human praise? What about furry creatures that take up enough of our money that we could feed multitudes of starving children with that same money? I have yet to meet an actual loving father who considers his dog a person.
Foolish American, who has bewitched you? Don't you know that not everyone who calls Jesus "Lord" will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven? And I quote:
‘LORD, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ “Then THEY will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” -Matthew 25:44-46
Be careful then, for life is but a fleeting moment, a whisper in the wind, and the Lord may call on you at any moment... let not that day come upon you like a thief in the night, but rather, keep oil in your lamps that they may be lit when He comes for you, for even now HE is ready and willing to heal you, to bring you back into His House, ready to make all things new once more, by the love of the Father, the grace of the Son, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost. God is love.
