Saturday, August 8, 2009
{ 3:11 AM }
up, up and... idolatry?
Up! :D
hahah yeah watched it yesterday 0:D hee.
you know the funniest thing? o.o i cried man.
i cried.
it's so weird, really. i cried when that ellie and carl didn't recognize their "dreams" and they were growing old gradually.
and i cried when carl finally opened the section of ellie's album he always thought was blank.
hmm, maybe it was coz i felt like it was a waste.
that their lives were so wrapped around each other that when ellie left, carl broke.
yeah, maybe carl's attitude in the story could be justified on human terms, but i completely felt like, "where's God?"
then i had this sudden fear and feeling like, if the rapture happened now, what would have happened to me.
i would be staring at a talking, moving wall. instead of holding on to God.
and when that guy that carl idolized appeared, it was so scary.
so scary how he could be so consumed in what the world thought of him
and how monstrous he'd become.
and i left the cinema thinking, it was good. but i felt pretty unsettled.
and now i think of it yet again, idolatry.
and how idolatry isn't just about a golden calf and drunken orgies.
or a harvest "god" baal and polytheism.
idolatry isn't just about your "legal" religion, it's about priorities, and your heart.
and one thing it's definitely linked with is worship.
worship - comes from old english weorthscipe. and literally means worth -ship.
giving worth to something.
worship (n.)
O.E. worðscip, wurðscip (Anglian), weorðscipe (W.Saxon) "condition of being worthy, honor, renown," from weorð "worthy" (see worth) + -scipe (see -ship). Sense of "reverence paid to a supernatural or divine being" is first recorded c.1300. The original sense is preserved in the title worshipful (c.1300). The verb is recorded from c.1200.
since the definition of "worth" is already commonly established,
-ship: a native English suffix of nouns denoting condition, character, office, skill, etc.: clerkship; friendship; statesmanship.
O.E. -sciepe, Anglian -scip "state, condition of being," from P.Gmc. *-skapaz (cf. O.N. -skapr, O.Fris. -skip, Du. -schap, Ger. -schaft), from base *skap- "to create, ordain, appoint." Cognate with O.E. gesceape (see shape).
i⋅dol⋅a⋅try
–noun, plural -tries.
1. the religious worship of idols.
2. excessive or blind adoration, reverence, devotion, etc.
hence worship means giving and appointing worth to something in one's life and being devoted to it. appointing it a state and condition of being first and most important
and idolatry means excessive devotion to something (i.e. an idol)
and to devote means to give all or a large part of one's time or resources to (something)
therefore, when a large part of one's life is given to something else, where that thing is in a state and condition of being first in one's life, it's idolatry.
meaning when something else takes #1 in life before God, it's an idol and one is committing idolatry.
yes, i'm repeating the same point over and over. for emphasis.
it's not just a stupid golden calf or a stupid baal but can be anything.
when you don't Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and strength, and instead put something else in that position, it's idolatry! :(((
hence possible idols:
-> those literal "ou3 xiang4" celebrity idols
-> work/career/school/grades.
-> significant others
-> money and "security"
-> clothes and things we use
-> "odes to ...(something or other)." - a manifestation of idolatry.
-> addictions.
-> yourself. your goals. your future. your desires. your reputation.
yes, yourself.
when you put yourself before God in your life you are already committing idolatry.
hence, sin is rampant.
yes, very rampant.
and all those worldly ideals celebrated by humanity as such manifested in media
have little hints that link directly to a gigantic problem of idolatry.
it's like a fishnet thread that's leads to an iceberg covered by a gigantic golden silk cloth.
and we question ourselves why there are so many hypocrites that surround us, looking at ourselves at times as well, without thinking about what is first in priority at the point in which they commit the act of hypocrisy.
henceforth i am but a saved sinner who can do nothing, not even love God and put Him as first in my life, without His help. and His hand.
Labels: humanity is weak, sin is easy
