8th November

We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. 1 Corinthians 8, 4 - 6

The drowned god

On his way to the village he has to cross the river. While crossing the river he sees a crowd occupied in pulling something out of the river. Has somebody drowned? No, it is a wooden idol which fell into the river. They put a cord around it's neck so that it would not be carried away by the flowing water. What efforts are done to save a drowned god!

When he arrives at school. Toukaram tells the story to his new Christian friends. They say to him: "What a foreign god, he cannot even save himself nor say thank you to those who help him. This is a dead god! We know the living God!

- What is his name?
- Lord, Almighty, he is our Father.
- Where does he live?
- He is everywhere: he sees and hears everything". Toukaram listens and thinks. Gradually he gets to know the one God who gave his Son to save the sinners. One day Toukaram tells the whole school that he wants to become a Christian.

We do not need wooden or stone idols to subjugate our materialistic century: money, glory, drink, drug and spiritualism replace them. The apostle John ends his first letter with following words: "Dear children, keep yourselves from idols (1 John 5, 21).