I have been guilty so many times of replacing God on the throne of my heart. Over the course of my life, I have had people, places, dreams and desires on the throne of my heart. But over the last year, I have been really convicted in my soul that I was dabbling in idolatry.
Now we may not think we are idol worshippers because we are not physically bowing down and verbally calling a statue image "God" but we are emotionally and spiritually identifying those other things in our life as our Lord.
For example, one may consider that their spouse or romantic partner or their parent is their Savior and whatever they need to be saved they go to that person, depend on that person...instead of Jehovah Jireh. One may consider themselves as God and worship who they are by constantly placing themselves on the throne of their own life. And of course, we know that money, cars, houses can definitely be worshipped.
Worship entails a sacred devotion to a person or thing. It entails an honor that is above any and every other honor. I truly believe that we can not worship the LORD God wholly when we have all these other "gods" on the throne of our lives. What would it be to only have the LORD God as ruler of the world? As ruler of our lives? One thing is for sure, it will require complete and total trust and faith that God is deserving of that title.
Modernity has so kept us blind to the fact that God is Sovereign. With technology of such things as baby makers and food growers, we feel at times that we don't need God to supply. But woe to him that thinks that. Let's bring it down a little from the extreme. With technology, we may feel that we don't need to depend on the LORD for relationships; we can create them ourselves. God is LORD.
Like I started this blog with: I am guilty of replacing God from the throne of my heart. It has grieved me at the fear I have had in letting God dwell there. Woe unto me! But when you know better, you do better. Pray with me as we put God back on the throne.
Blessings,
Aurellia
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