Psalm 115
4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
Psalm 135
15 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
Isaiah 2
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Hosea 8
4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
Habakkuk 2
18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
🌑 Do you keep it in a Special place ❔
🌑Do you wear it so you get special treatment from People ❔
🌑 Do you wear it to show your social status ❔❔❓
🌑 Do you wear it to cause some kind of attention ❔
🌑Do you sometimes wear it to '"steal the show "❓
🌑Do you wear it in hope that you Can lure the opposite sex ❔
🌑 Do you spend more money on it than you do with God ❔
🌑 Do they make you feel special ❓
🌑 How do you feel when someone gets you Jewelry ❔
🌑 You spend time in front of the mirror trying on different types and hoping people like it on you as much as you like it on your self ❓
🌑Don't you just like the way people worship you with words❓.. "you look good '",..." wow those look good on you".. "you are so pretty'"...... Etc
🌑Don't you think that when you dress up you do it for the world and not the Word ❓
🌑 Do you love being worshipped by men and envied by women ❓
🌑Funny how your Idol makes you an Idol.... when people " adore " you.. And then you feel the need to keep giving them more to adore and worship.
But we deceive ourselves into thinking that we dress for our comfort and convenience... But you dress up for ..
🌑acceptance ( we are so insecure with the way God made us, we want to be like... ) #covetous
🌑 status (we want people to know that we can afford the flossing) #pride
🌑our jobs (since God is too powerless He can't give you clients, unless you attract them Yourself) #false
🌑the opposite sex (since people would want to be with us because of our selves and not our LIGHT) #city set on a hill
Besides who designed all the stuff you put on, was it Ordained by God, God that was not satisfied with the clothes that Adam and Eve made in their fallen state He made new ones.
He knew the house David /Solomon wanted to make but He had His own blue print for His temple.... Don't you think you are a temple.
1 Corinthians 6
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians 3
16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If ANY MAN DEFILE THE TEMPLE OF GOD , HIM SHALL GOD DESTROY ; for the temple of God is HOLY , which temple YE ARE .
God has a blue print for your dressing...
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However,
Ultimately you look weird without them (the Idols)
And you feel that with them you look better than how God made you.
You attach them to your self, to give you some sort of worth in the society,
Hosea 4
17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
#CHALLENGE
Try a real whole day in your normal life, dress #Amish
No Jewelry no make up... If you really are dressing for your comfort, or just for your self then you will have no problem as no one may worship and adore you..
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