Idol

The original Korean text: https://blog.naver.com/stevision/222519726945

 

I have wanted to tell this.

 

 

Some people make figures of a man or an animal and serve it as a god, and we call it an idol. God forbids such kind of idolatry.

 

 

But there is another kind of idol God hates: a man can be an idol, a kind of god.

 

 

It is only God who has the ownership and disposal over human life. If a man kills another man, the murderer becomes an idol himself. The thought, 'I influenced on the life of another man,' is inscribed in his mind forever. He is clothed with the pride and authority of a god. The consciousness of this pride and authority becomes a cloak of idol and covers his existence. Therefore he has become an abominable idol in the eyes of God.

 

 

The likeness, or the cloak, of idol can be removed from the murderer only when he is executed for murder. Therefore, even a Christian, if he has killed another man on purpose, must repent with tears and be executed to take off the cloak of idol, so that he may be forgiven sins and have a chance to go to heaven. (How can a human god live with the God in heaven?)

 

 

Praise belongs only to God. But, if a man keeps trying to receive praise and laud and enjoy it, he also is making himself an idol. And, no matter how humble he is indeed, he has become an idol unintentionally if he is the object of praise and laud of hundreds of thousands of people. This is never a favorable situation to him. That's why he must be careful in his deed and conduct lest he be in such a situation.

 

 

God allowed a disease to Paul so that he might not become an idol even unintentionally.

 

 

 

Look at a Christian religioner (a prodigal pastor) who died recently. When he kept gathering a lot of Christians into his church to become an idol, did God not give him a prodigal son in order to prove to all people that he is not a god, and that he is not even a great man? (I mean Mr. Cho.)

 

 

Christians should live a life worthy of praise, but they should not be an object of the excessive praise of people. They should prevent the cloak of idol from covering their existence by emptying themselves of pride and by putting down what they possess beyond necessity. And honestly, how can humans be objects of praise and laud from others? Humans are not objects of praise from other humans, but just objects of praise from God.

 

 

God feels more love for the poor and insignificant laymen than for the so-called great Christians, who are in fact idols.