Quote of the Day

So it is today. In our unbelief, we both oppose God and avoid him.

What is the result of this people-idolatry? As in all idolatry, the idol we choose to worship soon owns us. The object we fear overcomes us. Although insignificant in itself, the idol becomes huge and rules us. It tells us how to think, what to feel, and how to act. It tells us what to wear, it tells us to laugh at the dirty joke, and it tells us to be frightened to death what we might have to get up in front of a group and say something. The whole strategy backfires. We never expect that using people to meet our desires leaves us enslaved to them. [Edward T. Welch, When People Are Big (Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing, 1999), p. 46]