Ezekiel 14:6-8
“‘Therefore, say to the house of Israel: ‘GOD, the Master, says, Repent! Turn your backs on your no-god idols. Turn your backs on all your outrageous obscenities. To every last person from the house of Israel, including any of the resident aliens who live in Israel—all who turn their backs on me and embrace idols, who install the wickedness that will ruin them at the center of their lives and then have the gall to go to the prophet to ask me questions—I, GOD, will step in and give the answer myself. I’ll oppose those people to their faces, make an example of them—a warning lesson—and get rid of them so you will realize that I am GOD.’”
“‘Therefore, tell the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Repent and turn away from your idols, and stop all your detestable sins. I, the LORD, will answer all those, both Israelites and foreigners, who reject me and set up idols in their hearts and so fall into sin, and who then come to a prophet asking for my advice. I will turn against such people and make a terrible example of them, eliminating them from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
Idols are ruinous. They make us numb to our wounds of sin and oblivious to reality. They handicap and destroy God’s creation and that is why he hates them and their father Satan. At some point their worshippers are beyond redemption and God steps in. We are reminded that judgement occurs, “so you will realize that I am God.” There is healing in knowing God, our father and lover of our souls. Idols never satisfy our longing for integration and wholeness. Only the one for whom we were made can make us secure and fully ourselves.
Yes Lord! Make me fully myself. Shape me to fill your purpose and occupy the place for which you gifted me. I know the course of my day has many appointments with eternity. Let me keep each one, giving aid and honoring you in word and deed.