Do I have any idols??

Last night I was at a fall conference for a local church. It was appropriately entitled Regenerate.

The speaker passionately introduced the weekend topic concerning "Idols". He spoke of how we often refer to idols as physical things since in the old testament that's what they were, an idol was often a carved image of some sort.
In our material world we can have many idols too and they can sneak up on us. Now you are wondering how on earth will a carved image sneak up on me, can they walk, that would be freaky?
While we regularly attend church and say that we worship the one true God, what do the attitudes of our heart suggest that our idols are? What does our calender, our daily schedule show that we idolise? What are we not so willing to give up when God is calling? Is it a Monday night TV show, sports, clothes, cars, houses, careers? Is is worry, hurt, anger. lust....things that we are not prepared to let the power of God work in? If God were calling me right now to go the mission field, could I leave all my "stuff" behind? Oh but wait a minute he is.....we are all called to the mission field, which is where ever we happen to be, we are all called to put him first. Have things snuck up on us to put a choke hold on the attitudes of our heart?

How am I doing with this? How are you doing with this? What are we prepared to do differently?

Exodus 20:3 (http://www.biblegateway.com)

New King James Version (NKJV)

³ “You shall have no other gods before Me.

Casting Crowns - I Surrender All (All To Jesus)

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