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About Being a Grandmother
thing an object of worship. It is no light matter
to place any creature in the place of the Creator.
Idolatry always takes the gifts of God and
attempts to use them specifically to achieve
what we want, i.e., to use them for our own
comfort and/or power. Take the word ‘idol’ and
look up the verses listed under it in your
concordance; this will show you how very
seriously God views the matter of idolatry. It
is not as though we have not been warned. We
have, and the warnings are heavy. Why is it such
an important issue to our Creator-Redeemer?
God simply says in Exodus 5:20, ‘for I the
LORD thy God am a jealous God’" (Almy,
2 , 0 0 0 , PsychoHeresy Awareness Letter).
Worship of family can blind our eyes to our
ultimate goal in life as Christians – which is to
glorify God. Sadly, though, many times
glorifying and exalting our children and
grandchildren by proudly putting them on
display for the admiration and adoration of
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