Friday October 10th, 2025
« “Son of man, these leaders have set up idols in their hearts. They have embraced things that will make them fall into sin. Why should I listen to their requests? »
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
When you ask people who or what they worship they are most likely to tell you ‘God’, but then’ many people are worshipping other things or persons apart from God.
- Some people worship their spouses, children, money, some their bellies, some their image on social media and, believe it or not, some worship their means of transportation.
When I was in the grammar school, we had a teacher who had a bicycle that he loved so much. Whenever he got to a place that was muddy, he would get down from the bicycle and carry it across. He preferred for his feet to get dirty than his bicycle. He worshipped his bicycle.
Many come to God in prayers and get nothing from Him because He can see in their heart that there is an idol there.
He knows that they only worship Him with their mouths, that their hearts are far from Him, Matthew 15:8.
Since He is not their God, then He ignores them.
If at all the Lord answers, He does so according to the idols in their hearts. Ezekiel 14:4NKJV
« “Therefore speak to them, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Everyone of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him who comes, according to the multitude of his idols, »
In Numbers 22:19-35, Balaam valued the treasures that the king promised him more than the instruction of God.
After God had told him not to heed the king’s call, he still went back to God when the servants came back to ask if he should go,
so God answered him according to the idol in his heart, telling him to go.
On his way, there was an angel waiting to kill him.
Had it not been for the eyes of his donkey that were opened to see the angel, he would have been dead as a result of the idol of greed in his heart.
Our God is a jealous God.
He said in Exodus 34:14NLT
« You must worship no other gods, for the LORD, whose very name is Jealous, is a God who is jealous about his relationship with you »
The moment you regard anyone or anything above God, He will leave you alone and believe me honestly, the worst thing that can ever happen to a person is for God to leave him or her.
Application – Do a thorough check on your heart and be honest with yourself. If there is something you regard higher than God, ask Him for mercy today.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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