Well, hello everyone, and welcome to another mornings with the Masters, where we devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Today we are back in New Morning Merseys, and so let's just jump on in and be encouraged. It says this,

idolatry occurs when anything created to point you to God

replaces God and the thoughts and desires of your heart.

Ooh.

This struggle goes all the way back to the beginning

in the Garden of Eden

and has marked humanity ever since.

What was designed to point us to God

replaces God in our hearts.

It is the sad tragedy of sin.

Sin is fundamentally idolatrous. Because of it we love something more than God.

We look to what God made to do, what only God can do. We surrender control to what was made rather than surrendering it to the

one who made all. We celebrate the physical while forgetting the one who created every physical

thing. We worship the gift and neglect the giver.

Consider how the disobedience of Adam and Eve is described in Genesis 36. So when the woman

saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the

eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit an

ate and she also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate

Eve knew the boundaries that God had set

Yes, the garden was a gorgeous place. It was a place full of beautiful sounds, smells,

sights, and tastes. It's hard to imagine what created perfection

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