Jan
20
2010
Needs or masters?
“People do not have needs. We have masters, lords, gods, be they oneself, other people, valued objects, Satan. The metaphor of an idolatrous heart and society capture the fact that human motivation bears an automatic relationship to God: Who, other than the true God, is my god?”
David Powlison, “Idols of the Heart and ‘Vanity Fair,’” The Journal of Biblical Counseling 13 (1995): 39. Italics his.