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 This really made me think!  Everywhere we go we see this ----   ! Are We Guilty of Latter-day Idolatry? By  H. Wallace Goddard  · February 6, 2023 In his stirring message,  The False Gods We Worship , President Spencer W. Kimball suggested that many of us Latter-day Saints are guilty of idolatry. Idolatry! That seems like a harsh indictment for such an earnest people who do so many good things. Yet he challenged us: In spite of our delight in defining ourselves as modern, and our tendency to think we possess a sophistication that no people in the past ever had—in spite of these things, we are, on the whole, an idolatrous people—a condition most repugnant to the Lord. Idolatry is the worship of someone or something other than God as though it were God. Satan is clever. He knows that we are unlikely to place a golden calf in our living room and convene the family for prayer around it. We know better than that. So, he uses a more cunning method to push u...

Today was a particularly interesting entry in Latter Day Devotion.  I decided to include the calendar of what happened in the Church  on this day in history.   What idols do we worship in our daily lives?  President Kimball gives such a good description of what could be idols.   Right now, before Conference, is a good time for us all to really go through some soul searching, and be ready to receive the counsel from our leaders this coming weekend.    Latter Day Light DAILY DEVOTION _________________________ Modern Idolatry Nauvoo, Illinois September 29, 2014 SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY: Doctrine & Covenants  1:16 "They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon, even Babylon the great, which sha...