What in your life is still taking center stage above your heavenly Father?
The video and worksheet in this article are authored solely by Sister Jamie. We have added a few editorial notes below the resources to help provide context for her message.
It’s important to recognize and address idols in our lives—anything that takes precedence over our devotion to Yahuah. After all, it’s one of the Ten Commandments! But what does it actually look like for us to have “idols” in our modern lives? Sister Jamie takes us on a short, honest journey inward.
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Sister Jamie created a simple time-tracking worksheet to help you document and reflect on how you spend each hour of your day. Where our time goes reveals where our hearts truly are. Download it, sit with it honestly, and ask the Ruach haKodesh to show you what needs to change.
A Word Before — or After — You Watch
Sister Jamie’s reflection is deeply personal, and before some readers finish watching they may wonder:
Is she saying everything in my life is an idol?
She is not. What she is doing is something far more valuable—she is inviting us to examine the posture of our hearts toward the things we love. An idol is never simply an object. It is a misplaced devotion. Food, family, work, friendships—these are gifts from Yahuah. They only become idols when we trust them, run to them, or cling to them more than we cling to him.
Perhaps the most spiritually perceptive moment in this reflection comes when Sister Jamie stops and asks herself:
Is overeating the actual idol — or is it a symptom of a deeper one?
Most of us never think to ask that question. We wrestle with the behavior and never look beneath it. She traces her own struggle to its root and finds it: Comfort. She was not simply craving food—she was seeking relief from feelings she had not yet learned to bring to the Father. The surface struggle was pointing to something deeper that needed healing.
Matthew 10:37–38
The test Sister Jamie offers is convicting: If Yahusha walked through the door and asked you to give up that person, that dream, or that addiction—would you hesitate? This is not a legalistic checklist. It is a love question. It asks where your deepest loyalty truly lives. Yahusha framed discipleship exactly this way in Matthew 10 and Matthew 16—not as a list of prohibited things, but as an invitation to love him above all else.
We are grateful to Sister Jamie for her vulnerability and her willingness to look beneath the surface of her own struggle. May her testimony be a mirror and an encouragement as you press in closer to Yahuah. HalleluYah.
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Wow praise YAH Sister Jamie!
Thank you for your sincere reflection and honesty this was Beautiful.
Makes me think how we can view something as so little but yet can actually be more than what we think, it can be/become IDOLATRY.
Reminds me of experiencing being repentive which leaves us unchanged vs having true repentance which transforms us to truly change and continue to grow especially in our walk with Abba Yah.
Thank you again, this is something I too need to dissect and reflect and confirm and not to be like Peter “not me I’ll never deny you” or even saying I’ll never choose other things, or do any of that!” Or add excuses.
May ABBA YAH be with us as we press in to become closer to ABBA YAH as mentioned by Sister June.
In Yahushas name HALLELUYAH!
Thank you sister Jamie for your transparent vulnerability. Comfort as an idol is one that I’ve had Yah reveal to me was a hidden idol. It can look different for each of us while it’s tucked deep beneath the surface. Thank you for the reminder to always be on guard and daily be asking Yah, “search me oh Yah and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts, and see if there be any evil/wicked/grievous/rebellious/non-righteous way in me and lead me in Your ways everlasting”