Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts 17:23-24
As the Apostle Paul walked the streets of Athens, he beheld innumerable altars and statues dedicated to the Greek deities, so many that “his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.” All his life he lived by the commandment “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” So superstitious were the Athenians that they built altars to an “unknown god” lest a god be offended that he had not been worshipped.
We need to take care that in our daily walk we do not elevate anything to the status of a god, whether it be a person, an idea, a desire or a material object. “For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.”
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