The Lord our God forbids us from making, possessing or worshiping idols or any representations.
He said:
« Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God. »(Leviticus 26:1)
But we never stop making idols for ourselves!
Did you know the pictures of Jesus that we have in our homes are idols?
Did you know that bangles bearing pictures of Jesus are idols?
Did you know that necklaces bearing the picture of Jesus are idols?
These are all idols that we believe in because they don’t even bear a true image of Jesus, nor Jesus, but the image of someone else not Jesus.
Besides, no one has a real image of Jesus and no archaeologist has ever had a copy of the image of Jesus.
And even if it were a real image or photo of Jesus, the word of God would not allow us to make an idol of it.
The saddest thing is that there are Christians who believe that these images can protect or bless them.
It’s sad.
The picture of Jesus does not exist and his image is not necessary, because the image by which Jesus wanted us to know him, he showed it to us, is the image of love, of the mercy and courage that led him to the cross.
Jesus doesn’t want us to know him in pictures, he wants us to know his heart, what brought him into the world, what he did on the cross and what he is to us.
Jesus does not want us to recognize him in images, he wants us to recognize him in his words.
PRAYER:
Eternal our God, give us understanding and wisdom so that we may know how to avoid falling into idolatry.
It is in the precious name of your son Jesus Christ that we pray, Amen.
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