What are these idols you ask?
The distractions that seem determined to overtake our willpower to think for ourselves... things like the latest gadget, the "more is better" obsession, "just a little more" mentality, oversize advertisement on billboard; the newspaper and HDTV that flash messages drawing our attention to the supposedly solution to provide us with intrinsic gratification. What this really does is it creates an escape to engage us into become suppressed thinkers and very unhappy with a perplexed sense of feeling like social/classis failures and this is so far from the truth yet more and more, persons are succumbing to the bombarding influence of the materialistic world- modern day slavery!
Chasing stuff in pursuit of joy and happiness, and believing the empty promises that comes with the disclaimers, almost succeed and even succeed in keeping some people restless in a cloud of existence living like zombies to pay busyness campaigners who keep attacking our conscience to try win or rather, to twist our lives or in some instance sell or trade our souls to the lowest bidder. The trade off; a life of sorrow, spiritual bankruptcy, addiction, false guilt, shame, hopelessness, emptiness, self punishment, disease, crime, repressed emotions, mystification, conformity, blind obedience, bribery, manipulation, hatred and all the deadly desire to kill for more of what cannot satisfy the deepest longing... love, justice, freedom and a life of eternal bliss.
Once I accepted that I too was almost beginning to believe that this must be the proof of success and starting striving in vain. I realize that I would easier disintegrate than attain the world’s s false offer of security, so I pleaded with God to examine me and remove all that is not of his making as a source for my happiness, joy and salvation... and he has removed all the influence of the messages of the idols!It came with a price… I had to say goodbye to all the self worth eaters and strip my need for the amassing idols that had been competing for first place in my life.
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