Thread: Idol Worship is Bondage

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April 10

Idol Worship is Bondage

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood (Psalm 106:36-38)

Worship consists of giving God first place in our lives. Nothing is to come before God (Psalm 73:25). Anything that comes before God and that we desire more than Him has become an object of our worship whether we realize this or not.

This is the sin of idolatry. Webster’s defines idolatry as “Excessive attachment or veneration for anything; respect or love which borders on adoration.” When God first gave the first of the ten commandments to Moses the pagan nations surrounding Israel worshipped statues made with their own hands and referred to them as “gods.” Even in our day many non-Christian religions practice this method of idol worship.

While pagan practices exist today even among civilized people, Christians must understand that even they can fall into the sin of idolatry. Whenever we are excessively devoted to anything other than God and His Word we are committing this egregious sin. One need not have a statue in order to be an idolater. Sadly, any type of idolatry will put us in bondage to Satan.

Worshipping Satan and demons will snare you. It will trap you and place you into bondage. God is about freedom and liberty while Satan and demons are about entrapment and harsh slavery. Yet, when we choose to worship the true and living God, He delivers us from the enemy’s snare:

HE WHO dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand]. I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust! For [then] He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. (Psalm 91:1-3; The Amplified Bible)

When we worship God for who He is and what He does, we have a continual reminder of His promises. We place ourselves on God’s side and the devil, while he may growl and snarl, is unable to snare us.