Allowing God to be God...

On Idolatry…
Bapa Eliseo Mercado, OMI

God is both ….
• the seen and the unseen…
• the known and the unknown…
• the evident and the hidden…
• the near and the far…

Our refusal to let God BE God leads to the creation of idols unto our own image and likeness! Often our ways, thoughts and deeds are NOT God’s. We begin to fashion our idols by…
• our refusal to be nobody compared to God the greatest of all...
• by substituting the God who cares to our surety in our “finger tips”...
• by taking him for granted, especially when we have not need of God...
• by our failure to follow the way of justice & righteousness...
• by holding on to the inconsistencies between my knowing and reality…
• by believing our WRONG FOCUS - the idol- of god...

LET US DESTROY THE IDOLS WE HAVE FASHIONED AND ALLOW GOD TO BE GOD…!

The week before Holy Week, the three young men, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, in Daniel 3: 13-20 show us with GREAT COURAGE and FAITH what it means to believe in Yahweh. Before kings and potentates of this world, we have no need to present a defence in whom and on what we believe. They invite us to confess, by our lives, words and deeds, that we shall not serve any other gods and we shall not worship gold, power and establishment that have long been our idols all these years…