In Gods world all of these created things are different from all the other created things. So that the proof of Gods eternal love is His communication of the individual value of that thing in a perfect description. "God opens His hand and satisfies the desires of every living thing." Gods perfect description of everything is understood by each thing being completely satisfied with having the needs met. Everything gives glory to God in the highest praise even tho the world is filled with loneliness, isolation, hardness of heart and the other personalities of the curse. In Gods view He has corrected every thing that is out of order in His time and with His perfect provision. Its as if God takes a snap shot of all time and shows the beauty of His work so that as He exist everything has been made to the praise of His glory. Rev 5 11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders.12 In a loud voice they sang: "Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!"13 Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing: "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!"14 The four living creatures said, "Amen," and the elders fell down and worshiped.
This is the problem with having idols. Idols are anything that defines God downward. This is why Calvin said that man is an idol factory because in order for us to offer God the praise that He deserves we would need to have equal power, equal vision, and equal understanding. This is what the Psalmist meant when he teaches that we are already obligated to offer God praise before we actually praise Him with our lips because we are always in dept because of our inability to offer it on His level. So there is a much deeper problem here than just using something or someone in an idol paradigm. We can use religious phrases, desires and institutions to create idols. The depth of how we create idols is on the level of how we view ourselves and God at all times. lol
How does God deal with such a prevalent problem? He must act perfectly according to His nature as a Man at all times. See when we have idols we embrace the curse. When we change the value and describe the purpose of someone or something that exist that is not exactly correct we create false value. When we create false value we make that thing more valuable than God...we actually lower the value that God has on that thing and we use it for our own selfishness. This is such a big problem that God had to correct it apart from our view of image. God had to create a whole new order and establish His kingdom without the help of any other thing. This is why when we are saved everything that was needed to take care of false images was done by God and gifted to us. Our success is really motivated by Gods kingdom pushing in on us and giving us strength and acceptance so that we are able to curse the curse ...pushing the curse away so that we can have the family identity. In this new accepted relationship we can give God our Father praise that is acceptable even tho we are unable. We cannot be kicked out of the family. The reality creates the image.
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