Do you sacrifice your children to an idol? Ezekiel 19-24

Ezekiel 23:37-39 (NASBStr)

For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire to them as food. Again, they have done this to Me:they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My sabbaths. For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and lo, thus they did within My house.

Idolatry is a powerful practice in the lives of men.   Most people, today, if asked, would not admit to any form of idolatry.  Most of us would say that is a practice of uneducated and superstitious people.   Yet, we practice idolatry every day by putting something other than God on the throne of our lives.  If we think "worship" is when we give something honor and praise via our time and our treasure than we worship many of the possessions we own and have worked for to obtain.  We even worship our occupation and especially the education that comes with it.  Our country worships "learning".  It does not worship the God who gives wisdom for what we learn, however.  In the above verses one of the distinctions of idol worship is the sacrificing of our children to our idols.  Again, if asked, our society would say they would NEVER do that and find it barbaric.  Yet, the same person who would react violently to that thought would not mind working Saturdays and Sundays to earn money for a mortgage on a nice house and sacrifice their time away from the children to do that ... all the while claiming what a good parent they are by what they "provide" their children.  Yet, they are sacrificing their children for their idols (style of living).   Make sure we know what true idol worship is all about.   When we put something on the throne other than God we are idol worshipping.   When we do that at the cost of raising our children for God, we sacrifice our children for that idol.   You might think the nation of Israel was a wicked and horrible people.  Yet, we do the same thing every day for cars, houses, boats, campers, life styles.