April Presdiency message

President Spencer W. Kimball said that “We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people.” (Ensign, June 1976, p. 6.) What gods do we worship? He enumerated some of them: “Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors from the path to godhood. …

“Intangible things make just as ready gods. Degrees and letters and titles can become idols. …

“Many people build and furnish a home and buy the automobile first—and then find they ‘cannot afford’ to pay tithing. Whom do they worship? Certainly not the Lord of heaven and earth, for we serve whom we love and give consideration to the object of our affection and desire. Young married couples who postpone parenthood until their degrees are attained might be shocked if their expressed preference were labeled idolatry. … Whom do they love and worship—themselves or God?” (The Miracle of Forgiveness, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1969, pp. 40–41.)

To worship the Lord is to put him foremost in our hearts and minds, above all other relationships and before all other things. There is no god but God, and we are to worship him only.