Idolatry

I was reading the first Chapter of Paul's brilliant letter to the Church of Rome this morning and I was just overwhelmed with the ugliness and foolishness of idolatry, look at how Paul, inspired by the Holy Spirit describes it:

Romans 1:18-25

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

That bolded line is what struck me, how we have all exchanged the truth of about God for a lie and have turned to lesser things, things God himself created and turned to worship them. How offensive must it be for the One who created us to love and adore Him, to lift our hearts to Him in worship, when He sees us totally enamored with the gifts He gives us to point us to Himself. Make no mistake we are wired for worship and we will worship something, if it is not God then it will be something else and usually it is ourselves. My prayer for myself and anyone who reads this post is that God would open our eyes to those idols that we have lifted to the place that God alone belongs, that God in His grace would reveal to us things that we are desiring more than Him and we would cast down those idols and devote more of our heart, mind, soul, and strength to our Savior and Creator who is blessed forever, amen.