Worthless idols | Jeremiah 10:8 | March 19

Are you letting some things replace the refreshment of God in your life? This week, we have been looking at the book of Jeremiah. He was an Old Testament prophet known as the "Weeping Prophet." Yet, he gives us verse after verse about God's love and His plan for our lives. Well, today's One Verse is a little different. Jeremiah is gonna drop a little Truth bomb on us. In Jeremiah 10, God and Jeremiah have a conversation about how crazy it it that men will hire a craftsman to cut down a tree and carve an idol. How does that even compare to God? Well, we probably don't have a lot of "worthless wooden idols" in our house. Or do we? I know I have some electronic idols. I have some food idols. An idol is anything that can take us away from God or substitute His work in our lives. When I'm stressed, I turn to food. Idol. Or I binge watch on Netflix. Idol. Is food, Netflix, or social media bad? No. But I can turn them into an idol when I start to look to them for refreshment instead of my relationship with God. Let's evaluate our lives and see if there are any idols we need to give up.