American Idols -Have We Betrayed God's Trust

Have Americans  placed idols in their hearts  when we pursue reputation, acceptance, wealth or sensual pleasure with intensity or commitment that we should have for serving God?  Have we betrayed God's trust and pushed God aside.

John Winthrop (1588-1649) was the founder and first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  Though Oliver Cromwell asked him to join the revolution in England,  instead he helped form a new world with religious freedom of which we are the proud beneficiary.  On June 11, 1630 on board the Arabella, he wrote his most famous work , A Model of Christian Charity, which served as the guide for constitutional covenants of the Colonies.  Here is the famous term City upon a hill...

"We shall find  that the God of Israel is among us, when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies, when He shall make us a praise and glory, that men of succeeding plantations shall say--The Lord make it like that of New England.  For we must Consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world."