Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Habakkuk 2:18-20
by: Paula Davis.
We may look at the people of the Old Testament with their idols and think we are better than them because we no longer carve images out of wood and stone. However, the problem with created idols was not the image themselves but the heart of the creator. Dissatisfaction with God led them to seek for something more. When you are dissatisfied with your life, do you look for earthly things to fill the emptiness you feel? Maybe not a carving or statue—perhaps it takes the shape of food, alcohol, or escape into a novel or video. We need to be careful each day that we turn to the Lord who longs to fill our voids and who meets our needs much better than any idol we can find on earth!