Today, I sit in a local Starbucks sipping on my usual skinny vanilla latte while wrestling with a couple of texts for Sunday's sermon. I'm finishing a series on marriage this weekend and had this thought...Good things can become bad things when they replace the pursuit of God things in our lives.Examples of good things that might become "god-things" in our lives might include:
- Worshipping any created thing instead of the Creator who transcends them.
- Directing our devotion to a religious practice, style of music or any religious item, instead of directing our devotion to God for whose sake that religious practice and those things exist.
- A very strong attachment to one's country.
- A very strong desire to gain sex, wealth or possessions.
- A very strong desire to gain fame or recognition
- An obsessive desire to earn money could be classified as idolatry.
- An obsession to find love or to be married.
Any of these examples could be idolatry. Basically anything that comes before Lord and service to Him is an idol. That may even include our jobs, our hobbies, and even our families.
There’s an old African proverb that we need to remember. 
"The man who tries to walk two roads will split his pants." It has to be only one road for me. Good things can replace God if I'm not careful.
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