Hey, welcome to another encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

The devotional for today was written by Kenneth Peterson, and he titled it, Places of the Heart.

Here are some vacation tips. The next time you're traveling through Middleton, Wisconsin, you might want to visit the National

Mustard Museum.

For those of us who feel that one mustard is plenty, this place amazes, featuring 6,090

different mustards from around the world.

In McLean, Texas, you might be surprised to

run across the barbed wire museum, or more surprised there is such a passion for, well, fencing. It's

telling what kinds of things we choose to make important. One writer says you could do worse than

spend an afternoon at the Banana Museum, though we beg to

differ. We laugh and fun, yet it's sobering to admit that we maintain our own museums,

places of the heart where we celebrate certain idols of our own making. In the book of Exodus,

God instructs us, you shall have no other gods before me,

and you shall not bow down to them or worship them. But we do anyway, creating our own graven gods,

perhaps of wealth or lust or success, or of some other, fill-in-the-blank treasure we worship in secret.

It's easy to read this passage and miss the point.

Yes, God holds us accountable for the museums of sin we create,

but he also speaks of showing love to a thousand generations of those who love him.

He knows how trivial our museums really are.

He knows our true satisfaction lies only in our love for him.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional Scripture reading is from Exodus chapter 20, verses 1 through 6.

And God spoke all these words, I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

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