“Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.” – 1 John 5:21.
DARCEY Steinke is an author and has served as a lecturer at Princeton University. In her recent memoir “Easter Everywhere: A Memoir”, Darcey recounts how she, the daughter of a Lutheran minister, left her Christian profession.
Moving to New York City, she entered a life of club-hopping and sexual obsession. She wrote several novels. She continued, however, to be extremely restless and unfulfilled. In the middle of the book, she quotes Simone Weill as summarizing the main issue in her life. “One has only the choice between God and idolatry,” Weil wrote. “If one denies God . . . one is worshiping some things of this world in the belief that one sees them only as such, but in fact, though unknown to oneself imagining the attributes of Divinity in them.”
Don’t let anything or anyone come in between you and your first love – Jesus Christ. Today in prayer, praise the Lord that He is worthy of all of our worship and praise.
“The worship of the false in any form is idolatry.” – William Purcell
God’s Word: “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.” – Exodus 20:4.
