Hello Bloggers: if any of you are out there, I apologize for my late entry today. I am chaplain at Senior Camp, so my access is spotty. Please be patient and keep checking in.....and if you think of it, make a comment or two. A blog should be a conversation, and so far, I feel alone!
"Now when all this was finished all Israel who were present went out to the citites of Judah and broke down the pillars, hewed down the sacred poles, and pulled down the high places and the altars..." (2 Chronicles 31:1)
Here the people are re-turning to God. Taking down the altars and poles of worshipping idols (other gods) in the high places.
How can we do this? How can we tear down our worship of other gods? What needs to be removed from our lives---the idols that take us away from maintaining focus on God? Some people are real good at doing this during Lent...but we must do it whenever we recognize that we are worshipping---focusing on and adoring---something or someone other than God.
Is it a sport? a hobby? a group of friends? a job? a form of media? What is it that we feel we can't live without so instead we live for it? If it's not God, then we have to decide how we will turn from that idol and back to God as our center. I do not say this lightly. It's hard. The world won't understand. But, how else are we going to follow Jesus?
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