Beloved, do we have extreme admiration, love, or reverence for something or someone instead of for God? Idols are not just statues or man made gods. They can be TV, a hobby we do, a person or thing that we give more devotion to more than we give to God. God has made a covenant with us, but if we bresk the covenant by choosing to server and love another god, person or thing we lose the promises, favor, protection and all has for us. But, if we repent and return to God we regain it all. Lord, help us to love and worship only You and to return to You if we have gone to other gods in JESUS name, Amen
Judges 2:1-23 (Emphasis on verses 1-3 and 20-23)
1 The angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said to the Israelites, “I brought you out of Egypt into this land that I swore to give your ancestors, and I said I would never break my covenant with you.
2 For your part, you were not to make any covenants with the people living in this land; instead, you were to destroy their altars. But you disobeyed my command. Why did you do this?
3 So now I declare that I will no longer drive out the people living in your land. They will be thorns in your sides,a and their gods will be a constant temptation to you.”
20 So the LORD burned with anger against Israel. He said, “Because these people have violated my covenant, which I made with their ancestors, and have ignored my commands,
21 I will no longer drive out the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died.
22 I did this to test Israel—to see whether or not they would follow the ways of the LORD as their ancestors did.”
23 That is why the LORD left those nations in place. He did not quickly drive them out or allow Joshua to conquer them all.