What is This Idol?

What is this idol?
Carrying away my affections
Enticing my emotions
Demanding my love, my time, my all.
Offering nothing in return,
But cold disappointment
O God, I am fighting
Struggling to be free from this.
O What is this idol?

What is this idol?
Consuming my being entirely
Eating away my heart
Why have I been lured away?
To seek my own desires.
What could make me believe
That anything could take
Your place?
O God, I am fighting
Struggling to be free
O What is this idol?

O Father, I hate this idol
Stealing place within me.
Turning me from You
Disintegrating my devotion
For Your name.
I hate this idol
That draws me from You.

I am the idol.
My God, my Judge
I hate that I love
What I should hate.
Burn it from my very being
O Father, Potter
Of the clay of my heart.
Only You can rescue me
From bowing to myself.
Tear me down from my high place
Destroy my enabling priests
Who aid in my self-worship.
O God, I am the idol
That tears me from Your side.
Break me down, my God,
Til I have nothing left to worship
But You.