Idol Worship
“Make no graven image of the Lord your God.”
We should not presume to set God in stone, to freeze him, to demand he stay the same, he is the god of life. Life changes. To set God as stone is to create an idol of something that is ever changing and ever flowing. We often worship instead a dead image, an idol, your own imagined concept of what God is, and it falls short any time you presume to know the whole of the living ever changing God that flows through all life. You cannot contain God in one image, one book, one church, one set of doctrines, or solely in one man- he is the still small voice in us all. He always flows beyond the borders you draw. He is bigger than the universe he made, it is of him and in him as he is in us. To uphold an idol is to pour your life into it. It takes from you and others. The energy given in service to the idol could have instead been chosen to be fuel for living joyfully together.