In the bible, Exodus chapter 20 talks about the 10 commandments. The second one talks about false idols. An idol is anything or anyone who is regarded with admiration, adoration or devotion. Now each one of us has that person or thing they adore, admire Almighty? Think about it.

Do you have any false idols? A false idol doesn’t have to be a person. The first false idol was a calf made of gold, well it doesn’t sass me up, but who knows maybe it was a cute calf and the guy who made it had a miracle hand. Maybe false idols are anything that stops you from thinking about God, or anything that you admire or are devoted to it than your faith.

Take for example our gadgets, like phones. We rarely talk to anyone when we are with them. I admit, I also suffer from this problem. Our phones lead us astray most of the time. Some of us are in church but busy reading Kilimani Mums and Dads stories on a Sunday morning. We wake up to our phones before we say our prayers. We actual touch our phones before we touch our spouses. Some people sleep with their phones under their pillows. It is the last thing they check and the first thing they do in the morning.

Our phones have made pastors, bishops, and even politicians get in trouble. Don’t laugh at them, look at you. How many groups are you in on Facebook and WhatsApp? And most of them are not religion groups. Unlike my Paramedics group that we get our daily dose of the word of God and we never complain. Our brother, keep doing God’s work in that group. Heaven is waiting for you and maybe some of us

What if God asked you to give up your phone? You know he once asked Abraham to sacrifice his son; He actually sacrificed his own son about 2000 years ago. So it’s not crazy for me to think this, He can ask anything. So what would life be? You would need your watch, calculator, map, actual bible, dictionary, library, camera and many other things including a Walkman. I know some of you don’t even know what those are. Well those are some of the things your phone replaced including a calendar and a diary.

As much as we worship our tiny screen altars, we need them to run our day to day life. But don’t you be so much into your phone that you let life pass you by. Don’t lose your spouse or loved one over a piece of technology. And if God asks you to get rid of it, I will pray for you. Thank you for reading.