The Lord’s indictment is clear: “My people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols!”6 The New Testament says we cannot serve two masters.7 It asks, “What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?”8 Yet in ancient Judah and still today, people regularly sacrifice the eternal on the altar of the temporal. We think of the parable of the rich young ruler, who faithfully observed the law but could not sacrifice what he believed would profit him most—his wealth.9 How ironic that the very things we work so hard to acquire may be the things that cause us to walk away from what truly matters. To turn our back on God in favor of “things that do not profit.” — gift of disillusionment