Everything in the Old Testament prophets seems to deal with idolatry. It all speaks to God's heart for his people and how they turn their backs to God and rely on their own knowledge, their own pleasures, their own business practices, their own religion of prosperity, their own politics. Examine yourself and see if you are living the religion that Jesus gave us as the example to the heart of God. Or, are you living in the man made religion of criticism and slavery to the rules and regulations.
It is not our place to judge the people of the world and their sins. We are to love them and accept them as they are so that they see the unconditional love of God in our character and all we do. We are to judge ourselves and the log in our own eye should be our main concern. Looking within at the work God is doing will allow you to have the compassion to help those in the family of God and without.
Pastor Patrick
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