The Lord said,
“If a person turns to mediums and
necromancers, whoring after them,
I will set my face against that person and
will cut him off from among his people.”
Leviticus 20:6
I love watching college basketball ... especially during NCAA tournament time.
But about this time last week, I was watching THE most frustrating game I ever, ever saw. My NC State Wolfpack, slowly, excruciatingly gave the game away to the St. Louis University Billikens.
I was so frustrated at the end of the game that I had to look up what a Billiken is. (And its identity made me even less happy.)
The Billiken is a specific kind of charm doll from the turn of the last century.
Now the Billiken could have been a totally harmless creation of one particular art teacher from Kansas City in 1908. (After all, I'm an artist – a silly cartoonist – and most of my doodles are surely harmless creations.)
But when I hear that illustrator Florence Pretz saw this mysterious figure in a dream -- complete with pointed ears, a pointed head, and a mischievous smile -- and that people bought and gifted them as good luck charms, warning bells rang my head.
As Christians, we don't need good luck charms. In fact, it's idolatrous -- almost blasphemous -- to have them.
Our hope is in the Lord ... or it's not.
It's not just silly fun to have a charm or an idol, it's a refusal to fully trust God.
In the Law, God said he'd "cut off" those who played at charms, idols, and the occult. I don't know about you but I'd rather cut out the cute and silly (and clearly not so harmless superstitions) than be cut off from God.
In Christ's Love,
a poor Wolfpacker who's
still starting a campaign:
Down with Billikens
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