Yesterday I hit on American Idols. Anything you love more than God is an idol. Leonard Ravenhill, the great old revivalist said, "I don't care what it is." Whatever we live for, spend our money on, and look to on a daily basis is typically "our god". Whatever when taken away from us causes a temper tantrum in us just like that 2 year old in Wal Mart denied the Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bomb cereal box IS AN IDOL. In my recent blogs I wrote, I was addressing sins like pornography and lust. These words caused my clean Internet filter to deny me access to my own blog because it blocks pornography and filth. I came home from work to work on my blog and couldn't get on. I didn't have a temper tantrum but I saw in me how I have to be careful it is not an idol. I sent 3 requests to have it unblocked, I called clean inter 4 times until I got through. When I finally got on, there was a sigh of relief. If you wonder if something has a hold on you, go without it for a few days. Go without the Internet or your cell phone or junk food or coffee or sugar or the newspaper or cnn.com or the Jody Arias trial or Pintress or texting or Starbucks. And those are just the accepted addictions today. We are created to worship and if Jesus is not who has our hearts we will cling to something else more tightly then we should. America has 2 problems. First is we are addicted to things that waste our time and distract us from looking for God. Second, is most are also addicted to things that destroy us and make us run from God. A thief doesn't seek a policeman. Someone deep in sin will run from God until he is at the end of his rope. Usually though he would rather hold onto that rope until he gets blisters and callouses. Sadly most would rather use the end of their rope to hang themselves than call out for help.
We think someone bowing down to wood statues in a deep jungle is idol worship. The devil hasn't changed his tactics in 6,000 years, and his greatest tricks snare most of the world. Trick no. 1 is getting people to worship him without knowing it is him. The Bible says Satan comes as an angel of light. He shows up in religion and in a Santa suit to steal kids child like faith and is behind the big impressive cathedrals. His other trick is to come up with lures to hook people and get them to spend their own money on them to boot.
We buy life size posters of NBA "stars", half naked Hollywood harlots, and someone juiced up on steroids that can hit a ball the size of an orange out of a ball park. or someone who can throw a football or a ball throw a hoop. We pay an actor millions of dollars to pretend to be someone he is not and create a world that does not exist, when the church of America does that better for free. We pay millions to pull a lever at a casino or use a coin to scratch off a small piece of paper called a lottery ticket. We spend billions on something that tastes nasty and makes us throw up and crash our cars. We spend billions on junk food that fattens us up so we spend billions on weight loss products and obesity pills and cholesterol medication and diabetic testing strips. We spend billions on looking at naked people who we aren't married to so it makes the person we are married to and lawfully allowed to enjoy and be satisfied with UNENJOYABLE AND UNSATISFYING. We let our waking desires consume us and spend half our lives wanting things we shouldn't, couldn't, or wouldn't have if God was in control.
If you have ever been to a third world country you will see where America is making it's mark. They don't have anything, but have cell phones. They have homes free of decor and trinkets and every comfort yet they have cable tv. They were fine and happy not knowing that the secret to happiness is the American Hollywood way to live. It does not dawn on anyone that those that actually have climbed that ladder of success have found it is facing the wrong wall. They in hollywood possess everything they say brings happiness yet they can't avoid drugs that people take to escape their lives, they don't avoid suicides, they take anti depressants like the rest of America, and they can't stay married. Yet that is the answer.
How did America survive years ago without Prozac and Xanax? How did America survive without cellphones? How did kids get through school without Ritalin? How did marriages survive without Hustler and sex aids? The answer we were better off before. But the devil has us convinced his new gadgets are wonderful and we need them. You would be better to reject anything new and improved and anything that numbs your mind and just believe God.
Does anyone in America think anymore? It is a catch 22 now. Hollywood and tv program our thinking and our thinking is how wonderful Hollywood and TV programs are. We are for gun control because they are for gun control. We think same sex marriage is a wonderful thing because the queers on tv are so funny and the gay folks seem so happy. They are not mean and intolerant and unaccepting and closed minded like those street preaching and bible toting folks. It does not matter that God is against SIN and it does not matter that God does not change and it does not matter that God could not give a hoot what Obama thinks is good for America. The Bible says RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTETH A NATION BUT SIN IS A REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE.
America needs God more than anything else.
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