CRUX Daily: Idol Factory

Read: Judges 6:28-35

Reflect: When Gideon destroyed the altar of Baal he was cleansing Israel of their idols. What idols do you have and how can you cleanse them from your life?

Request (Prayer): Father, help me to see any idols that I have in my life and to destroy them like Gideon destroyed the altar of Baal.

Imagine Gideon’s plight as he set out to destroy the altars of Baal. His fear of doing this during the day is just like our fear of calling out the idols within us and around us. We’re reluctant. Just as the idols had been so long among the people, some sins may be “near and dear” to our hearts, and we feel as though we can’t possibly leave them out of our daily lives. Yet look what God had Gideon do: he never forced the people around him to stop sinning.

He took down the altars that would allow them to sin. It’s sad that we often stumble over our supposedly “harmless” homemade altars of sports teams, magazines, and musical keys. Let’s take them down. Whatever we leave to serve Christ, he promised, we receive in a “hundredfold” to come (Mark 10:29-30).