On my 26th birthday I spent hours touring Buddhist temples.
About 96% of Thai’s are Buddhist, and it’s often said, “to be Thai is to be Buddhist.”
The temples were beautiful, ornate, and huge.
I was fascinated to learn more about a religion I know so little about.
I love the fact that Buddhism stresses peace and that a holistic view balancing, mind, body and spirit, is emphasized.
There are many things that I admire about the culture here and about Buddhism.
At the same time I was saddened.
I watched as many families bowed before statues, praying, burning incense, giving offering.
I wanted to scream, “It’s a statue, it can’t give you what you’re asking for, you need a living God, you are bowing to an idol.”
As I was praying about it later that night, God spoke to me.
“Morgan, what idols are you bowing to?
What idols does your culture bow to?
Greed, lust, entertainment, thinness, busyness and perfection are just a few.”
God does this a lot to me, I want to point the finger outward, and he turns it around.
I pray people will be set free from idol worship, weather it’s Thai people coming to know how amazing it is to have a relationship with Jesus Christ, or Americans realizing that the things they are pursuing are nothing more then cold, lifeless, stone statues.
