Bible Question (short): Idols do we have them as Christians? |
Question (full): I have been thinking about idols, and if we have them today. For some time I have listened to other men and even teenage fellows. What do men and young men both want? A car or a truck! Just look and see how men act when we have got a new vehicle. Watch men and teenagers too, many read all the car magazines to see newest and fastest and greatest vehciles now out to test drive. The new car smell is sure nice, the ride is so smooth. Generally after going into debt for thousands of dollars, we praise getting this super wonderful vehicle, and want others to admire it too. The real truth is the very minute we drive it off the dealers lot the vehicle has depreciated as much as ten to fiften percent. Then the monthly payments that must be paid regardless if you can afford it or not. Generally we are talked into higher payments then we could afford. The insurance, and upkeep are all added into the monthly budget. Now here is where I see that vehicles have become and idol. Just pretend for a minuet, that for some reason we either got sick or something happened where we missed three days pay in a month. How many of us took what we were short and cheated God and used money from the tithe and made up the short pay to make the payment. According to Malachi 3:8-11 we have robbed of what was His. This idol we loved so much took Gods money. I want to ask how many of us look at vehicles as an idol? Are we brain washed into getting a new vehicle ever two or three years because we are convienced that if we keep it we will loose money on trading it in? Is satan taken a useful means of transpertation and enticed us into debt, and caused us to become a slave to the vehicle we drive. How many of us have not learned to be a good stewart of our transpertation? |
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