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different idols. That is, some people want money in order to control their world and life
(such people usually don’t spend their money, butsave it), while others want money for
access to social circles and for makingthemselves beautiful and attractive.
Richard Keyes in his essay The Idol Factory notes:
“All sorts of things are potential idols… If this is so, how do we determine
whensomething is becoming or has become an idol?… As soon as our loyalty
toanything leads us to disobey God, we are in danger of making it an idol… An idolcan
be a physical object, a property, a person, an activity, a role, an institution, ahope, an
image, an idea, a pleasure, a hero…
• Work, a commandment of God, can become an idol if it is pursued so exclusivelythat
responsibilities to one’s family are ignored.
• Family, an institution of God Himself, can become an idol if one is so preoccupiedwith
the family that no one outside of one’s own family is cared for.
• Being well-liked, a perfectly legitimate hope, becomes an idol if the attachment toit
means that one never risks disapproval.”
Thursday
Isaiah 44 v 6 – 23
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