Iconoclastic
As a writer, I claim C.S. Lewis as one of my mentors. Though it has been posthumously, nevertheless, I feel it has been accomplished scripturally (Heb. 11:4b). While reading him some time ago, I came across a word he used that I like very much. “It is the title” of this article, iconoclastic. It means, “An idol breaker.”
Moses was an iconoclast. We read in Exodus of him speaking to God’s elect: “And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, [and] ground [it] very small, [even] until it was as small as dust.” Men such as he, then or now, are not too appreciated by the carnal crowd, who worship man-made gods.
Idolatry not only plagued Old Testament saints, but New Testament believers as well. John exhorts, “Little children keep yourselves from idols.” Anything or anyone put before, or set alongside, God is an idol and must go. And it need not be evil in itself. In fact, it may be something Scriptural and Spiritual. You know, like Isaac!
“Lord Jesus, I long to be perfectly whole; I want Thee forever to live in my soul; Break down every idol, cast out every foe—Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
by an Aged Saint
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