The problem with idols is that they’re often good things.

Whenever we take something in our lives and make it more important to us than God, it becomes an idol. Like the ancients, we carry a whole pantheon of “gods” in our hearts. We don’t bow down to our idols anymore, but we do bend over backwards for them.

Good things are meant to be savored—they were never meant to be our Savior.

Sometimes the temple we need to cleanse is the one in our own heart.

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Published by Jeff McClung

Jeff McClung is a husband, dad, and a pastor at K-LOVE and Air1 Radio in Rocklin, California. He has been a full-time pastor since 2003. He writes about how you can live with more faith, more often.

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