Anything that substitutes for God in your life is an idol. Anything that takes precedence over God is an idol. For some people, I suppose, it could be a girlfriend. I mean, I've seen some people totally abandon all their Christian testimony for the sake of some girl that they fall in love with and visa versa. I've seen girls, you know, going in the church and active and aggressive in the Word of God and they get attracted to some guy and all of a sudden, "boing," you know, they're gone...long gone, just "shewwww." Set your goals for God and anything that diverts you to another thing...there's nothing wrong with boyfriends and girlfriends, that's all right, we're for that. But the perspective has to be proper.

It could be money. Some people bow down to the shrine of money and they worship money. The biggest thing in their life is to make money...not so much for the money sake usually but for the sake of being able to show the other people that they have the money. It's always a pride thing much more than it is a materialistic thing, in most cases. It isn't that they really want a different car, house, clothes, it's they want everybody else to know they have a different one that's better than the others. So it can be materialism, it can be even humanism. You can worship the mind. Some people go to college and all they want is degrees after degrees after degrees so that they can write them all down on a little piece of paper and everybody will think they're bright. And you can worship education. It could be anything. It could be sex. It could be booze. It could be anything. Anything that dominates and diverts you from the total goal of submitting yourself in worship to God. It could be even a hobby. It could be a good thing.