Habakkuk 2:18

"What good is an idol carved by man,
        or a cast image that deceives you?
How foolish to trust in your own creation--
a god that can't even talk! "


It is pure foolishness to trust in that which cannot last.  Money comes and goes.  The best engineered buildings and bridges will collapse in time.  People are here today and gone tomorrow.  Even the flowers of the field see decay.  All things will come to an end unless they are being sustained by the Infinite Yes.


All those who trust in things they have made themselves will become just like them:  lifeless, silent, and temporary.  This is idolatry.  It isn't just making little statuettes and bowing down to them, but it is to trust in anything you create and sustain independent of the Eternal Trinity, whether it be money, or relationships, or your physical appearance, or even your reputation, fame and popularity.


You only become that which you reflect.  If your eyes desire wealth, you may become wealthy, but you will also become lifeless.  If your eyes desire beauty, you may obtain beauty, but you will also be lifeless.  If your eyes desire a husband or wife, you may have one, but the marriage will be troubled for where is Love?  That is only contained within the immortal God.  Therefore I tell you, turn your eyes toward Heaven and gaze upon the Father and He will grant you life, love, and peace for He is all these things.

Romans 6:16

"Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?"

Every sin, though it may take many forms, is the same sin.  Because of this, breaking just one breaks them all in God's eyes for there is only one sin:  giving control of your life to anything other than God.

Adam and Eve did it when they obeyed the Serpent.  The Israelites did it when they worshiped a Golden calf.  Moses did it when he gave into his wrath and murdered an Egyptian.  David did it when he gave into his lust for Bathsheba.  Peter did it when he gave into his fear and denied Christ.  In every circumstance, when we place control of our lives into something other than God, whether it is other Gods or our own desires, we sin.  When we do not obey God's will in our lives and instead obey our other masters (greed, lust, pride, wrath, envy, hunger, laziness), we sin and sin greatly against God.  This is the one thing God cannot stand because he is a jealous god, just as a jealous husband cannot stand a wife who sleeps around.

It is not wrong, however, to desire things like marriage for example.  However when our desire consumes us, we know we are in error and are no longer obeying God's will for in the end we are all slaves to something whether it brings life or death.  The only question is, "Which will you choose?"