worship
“The worship of idols is not only illegitimate, but also senseless, and is in itself a sign of loss and alienation. Man now no longer knows either God or himself, and the problem of God’s ‘absence’, which man wished to ‘solve’ by worshipping idols, becomes instead truly insoluble. Seeking the presence of God in such a manner involves a misunderstanding of man’s own calling and destiny. It is only when man’s communion with God is broken that there can arise such confused and aimless attempts to find the ‘image’ by filling the vacuum with an artificially constructed divine ‘presence’.”
Man, The Image of God, G.C. Berkouwer.
Sort of helps me understand how our hearts work. There are only two types of people in this world: people who worship God and people who worship other things. Everyone worships something.
