definition: idolatry
idolatry: desiring something so much that you lose your contentment in God. Or: losing your contentment in God so that you start to seek it elsewhere. - John Piper
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idolatry: desiring something so much that you lose your contentment in God. Or: losing your contentment in God so that you start to seek it elsewhere. - John Piper
@1 year ago with 1 note“…yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.”
selah
“HOWEVER not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.”
"1 Corinthians 8:6-7 NASB (emphasis in CAPS and “selah” are mine)
I am meditating on “have this knowledge,” “eat food,” and “their conscience being weak.”
idolatry: desiring something so much that you lose your contentment in God. Or: losing your contentment in God so that you start to seek it elsewhere. - John Piper
“…yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.”
selah
“HOWEVER not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.”
"1 Corinthians 8:6-7 NASB (emphasis in CAPS and “selah” are mine)
I am meditating on “have this knowledge,” “eat food,” and “their conscience being weak.”
