Idols
I have done a small amount of teaching concerning idol worship and the context may be different, but it is no less real. The context of the teaching is to Vietnam veterans wives. Battered and abused, they really have major wounds. They have often told and retold the stories of abuse. In a very long teaching we taught that these women had made IDOLS of their wounds, going there frequently to "worship" or repeat the story over and over.
Psalms 135:18 says of idols that "They that make them shall be like them". So again there was much teaching in between this. Whatever I return to repeatedly and repeatedly hold up is an idol, and without quoting the OT we all know God's thoughts about idols.
So, I create an idol and go there repeatedly and now the Word it says I am like the idol. I become what I speak of and worship.
The next verse appears in Hebrews 12:15 "...lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and through this many be defiled" We not only destroy ourselves with our idol worship, but we also defile others.
To keep from this of course we need the Lord. The verse here was Luke 6:37 "...release and you will be released. Through the Lord we break the idol's hold on us by releasing the thing we are holding in worship. It may be forgiveness or just simply walking away. But by releasing...we are released!!!!
Forgive me for condensing hours of teaching this way, but I hope you can pick up what I am saying.
Sue
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