As a preparation to answer the Corinthian’s query about eating food
offered to idols, Paul had established that only merging knowledge with love
can that issue be solved. Whatever knowledge they had about God must be
tampered with God’s kind of love to solve the issue.
In verse 4, Paul resumed the issue of eating food that was offered to
idols. Paul dealt with their understanding of what an idol was. He echoed their
sentiment saying that there was no such thing as an idol in the world and that there
was only one true God. For these were what some of the Corinthians had said to
justify their eating of food that had been offered to idols. So Paul affirmed that
there was indeed only one true God and that an idol was nothing.
We need to understand the rationale of the statement. The fact is that an
idol is nothing in the sense that an idol is not representing the true God. At
best, an idol is just a representation of one of the many so-called gods. Since
none of the so-called gods is truly God, than an idol is representing nothing. In
reality there are many so called gods and lords in the world, but there is only
one true God and an idol doesn’t represent Him. For Christians, we have only
one true God and one true Lord. He is the
Father, the maker and sustainer of all things and the Lord Jesus Christ through
Whom we all originate and exist.
As believers nothing can be more exciting than to know and worship the
one true God. He is totally deserving of all glory and honor. We owe Him our
total allegiance. We should only bend our knees to this God. Let’s be
challenged by the words of a hymn that say, “The dearest idol I may have, whatever that idol be. Help me to tear it
from my heart and worship only Thee (God).”
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