Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. 1 CORINTHIANS 10:14–15 There are plenty of potential barriers to intimacy with God. If we are honest, it is easy to identify what keeps us from being fully present with him. John Calvin once wrote, “Every one of us is, even from His mother’s womb, expert in inventing idols.”3 He later says our hearts are a “perpetual factory of idols.” It is not hard to find what holds