Amidst Idols

"...we know that idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one."  1 Corinthians 8:4

A rare occasion: In a hospitality by an unbeliever in his room; that was the first time in my life to be accommodated in a room full of idols. Superstition and religious mindset would have prompted me to reject such arrangement but I just took it as from the Lord. Another opportunity to experience the true and living God. I stayed there in the room, spending time in prayer and fellowshipping with brothers and reading the Word of God! In fact, I had a very good sleep and a very good stay. 

Idols are nothing. It's just man made and they are no gods at all. It has no life, lesser than the least germ, at least germs have life. What one needs is life, the divine life of God to live in us and operate in us and through us. If at all there is any evil spirit behind those idols, when a believer is in its midst, all the evil spirits must flee, even though the lifeless idols cannot.  But this is not a justification for idolatry in our lives. Idolatry must be dealt with seriously, by destroying them all, even burning them if they are under our physical control, for they are all falsehood and vanity and counterfeit of the true and living God.

There is only one God, the true living God, who became a man, Jesus Christ, crucified to redeem man from sins, yet resurrected to become the life-giving Spirit, to enter into man, to make man the same as He is, in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. This one God cannot be idolised, imagined to be a good looking man printed in a printing press.  Even the so called "Jesus picture/photo" is an idol, an artist impression or imagination of how he might look like. To possess such, even is also an idolatry. Religion have invented many ritualistic-superstitious idols which became a hiding place for many evil spirits to deceive the novice and ignorant lot. Many have been drugged by religious superstitions and for fear of evil to befall, have wasted much time, money and energy to please the religiously drugged superstitious mind with many rituals and ceremonial oblations supposedly offered to God.

O what a salvation to be delivered for such idolatry, religion and superstition! May the true and living God in Christ as the Spirit deliver us from any form of idolatry. May God save us from the deception of the evil in the form of idols. For we know that idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.  1 Corinthians 8:4