Genesis
20: 3-6 NLT
“You
must not have any other god but me.
“You
must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of
anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not
bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a
jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods.
I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family
is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of
those who reject me. But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand
generations on those who love me and obey my commands.
It
is easy to make an idol of routine, finding security within the
boundaries you build around your life. (Jesus Calling by Sarah
Young, page 50).
There
are two principal habitual approaches to life—either one of which
can become routines of idol entrapment. One is competition, the other
is cooperation. To habitually engage the world in only one or the
other greatly impoverishes life. For socialism, the great Trojan
horse undercutting existence is the habitual routine of cooperation,
while for capitalism it is competition. Socialism must pro-actively
seek to balance cooperation with competition, and capitalism must
embed within its system a good measure of cooperation. In successful
practice both approaches inevitably share a common perch formed of
highly moderated routines.
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