Idols and Illusions
Idols and Illusions –
I would add to the quote attached to this post anything that’s fleeting, temporal, transitory, this that tell us lies about ourselves or others. Things like politics, money, jobs, reputations. Idols are all of these and more which fix our focus on the illusion that we are in control, we are powerful and by our wills, the world can be recreated in our image. It is this illusion that destroys our world and ourselves.
This morning part of my contemplation and meditation time included a portion of the Second Book of Kings, chapter seventeen, verse 15; “They worshipped false idols and became false.” I have read that several times today, talked about it with a friend and wrote it down in a journal. It says we become what we worship. Where our heart is, our mind, emotions, spirits, where our energies are applied is what we are and what we become.
Idols and illusions are hard to see sometimes. Breaking free from them isn’t easy. #AlbertEinstien said; “All of reality is an illusion, a persistent one, but still an illusion.”
blessings,
@BrianLoging (Twitter)
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Posted on January 9, 2018, in Mindfulness and tagged #albert, #AlbertEinstien, #applied, #attached, #become, #blessings, #breaking, #Breakingfree, #contemplation, #control, #destroys, #einstein, #emotions, #energies, #false, #fix, #fleeting, #focus, #hard, #heart, #Idol, #idols, #illusion, #illusions, #image, #jobs, #journal, #Kings, #lies, #money, #ourselves, #persistent, #portion, #powerful, #quote, #reality, #recreated, #reputations, #second, #see, #spirits, #temporal, #transitory, #wills, #worshiped, Book, Free, meditation, Mind, Politics, World. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
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Seems like idols don’t need to be MATERIAL deflectors. I’ve been thinking a lot over the past year or so about how ANYthing can become an idol–including our understanding about God. I do believe there are things we can know about God, but I suspect because we’re limited in the EXTENT we can know about God, we can fossilize into certain things we know about Him, which may be true, but may not be complete, and which then prevent us from encountering Him (and worshiping Him) more fully later. Suddenly our ideas about God become sovereign to us, over actual God…
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Blessings and thank you for reading.
Wonderful comment. There’s much to contemplate and reflect on. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for saying so. May the reflecting be a blessing.
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