As a believer my heart is focused on eternity. All that history is going to be erased anyway when Christ comes. While our country is fighting over preserving history and statues, people are dying and going to hell. In the vast configuration of things, preserving the statues and history will bring no one to the Lord, it's a distraction.
When Christ destroys the world and it's evil, it will all be gone anyway. As a believer I cannot fight with anyone over a statue, which really has no meaning for Christ.
Statues often tend to be idols anyway. People look at them longingly as though they are getting something out of the experience. I am a former Catholic, I see the sense of worship in icons more clearly than those who have never been Catholic.
If we cannot feel blessed, loved and having purpose without a statue, necklace, ritual or any other physical expression, then we have a heart that depends on idols.
As believers we walk by faith, not by sight. We can be as joyful, fulfilled and trusting in Christ much more if we are not depending on an icon of some sort to bring joy.
Jonah 2:8
"Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love."
1 John 5:21
"Little children, keep yourselves from idols."
Psalm 135:15-18
"The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; they have eyes, but do not see; they have ears, but do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths. Those who make them become like them, so do all who trust in them!"
Perhaps God is going to use the ungodly to tear down our idols?
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