“Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.” (Judges 17:4)
Racheal sat on them in the tent, hiding them from her father. They made one in the image of a calf in the wilderness. Good luck charms. If I wear this cross around my neck on a chain, I will be protected, if I follow the tenets of astrology I will know myself better. If I say my prayers just right, I will get what I want.
Search through history, any nation, any peoples, any time frame, including today, and you will find good luck charms, superstitious nonsense for the weak-minded, or doctrines of devils who occasionally allow the penitent to receive that which they ask for to keep them in bondage to foolishness?
“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” (1st Cor. 1:18)
“Superstitious fools,” they will say to us, “you think there is some invisible God who controls everything? No, there is not. This idol of wood is your god, gold and silver will give you what you desire.”
Keep your fingers crossed, knock on wood, count your beads, trust in the formed object.
Personally my friends, when I met these people, I have no difficulty saying to them, “If I eat a bowl of Lucky Charms cereal it will do me just as much good as your idols do.”
Every works-based religious organization has good luck charms, every single person who is not born-again has some form of superstitious nonsense they adhere to, and these are so deeply ingrained in us that even we who are hid in Christ must be taught the ridiculousness of them.
How many of you who have been saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ still hold within you a modicum of this truth? Do not step on cracks, don’t walk under a ladder, do this or that and your team will win the game? Don’t take that cross off.
“Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” (Mark 9:23)
Just believe with all your heart, and you will get what you want. How’s that working for you?
The veil between faith and superstition isn’t thick, it’s so thin you can see right through it.
Twenty plus years Jacob allowed those good luck charms in his tent, do you think after his name was changed to Israel he threw them away?
“Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.” (Mat. 4:10)
Don’t think you have one, do you? No idols of wood, stone or metal, of gold or riches?
“Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.” (Jer. 17:5)
Things over the centuries have never changed my friends. The shape and form of the idol may be altered, but they have always been with us, from the person we place upon the pedestal, and sadly sometimes behind the pulpit, to the change in your pocket, the thought that if I do this, then that will happen, the good luck charms have always been here.
Unless you happen to be reading this and you are of the cult of Rome or some other pseudo-religious groups, you probably do not have a materialistic item in your house that you pray to, that you worship. But is there a good luck charm in what we call your subconscious, or worse, in your heart? Would back luck come upon you if you threw that cross into the trash bin, chain and all? Would you need to thank your lucky stars more often?
You will need to look deep within you to find one, and make a decision, if I throw this idol away, this good luck charm, will bad luck come upon me?
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” (1st Cor. 13:11)
