The Problem With Idolatry….

The problem with idolatry is substituting the real thing for something that doesn’t even hold water. It’s like trying to take a picture with a broken camera expecting perfect exposure. Or better yet, trying to take a picture with no film in the camera. You may have high expectations but when it comes time to develop the film (to see the picture) disappointment envelops you, destroying any hope of ever reliving that moment through viewing the paper print. When we abandon God, we will always try to replace Him with something. It’s impossible to replace the irreplaceable, One and Only God. That’s the cold, hard truth about idolatry. You can’t replace the Irreplaceable. How can you expect to drink Living Water when you don’t have a vessel to drink from that holds regular water?

11 Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones, even though they are not gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols!12 The heavens are shocked at such a thing and shrink back in horror and dismay,”says the Lord.13 “For My people have done two evil things: They have abandoned Me–the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all! Jeremiah 2:11-13