Every Idol Is a Mirror

We usually think of idols as things outside us: money, a body, a career, a relationship. But look closer and many of them are really about us. We chase the number because of what we think it will make us. We chase the look because of how we want to be seen.

In the end, a lot of idolatry is self-worship wearing a costume. And it never pays what it promises. Jesus asked, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

Jonah learned this inside a fish. In his prayer from the deep he said, “They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.” Chasing what can’t save you means walking away from the God who can.

Ask yourself honestly about the thing you’re pursuing hardest right now: is it for God’s name, or for mine?