Digital content creator Brendah Jones has listed several idols she had before giving her life to Christ.
Taking to her Instagram account on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, Brendah said that before salvation she used to idolize social media, friendships, money, beauty, and secular music, among other things.
Brendah acknowledges that she used to seek validation from the world, words of affirmation, and social media traffic.
Apart from seeking validation and words of affirmation, Brendah added that she was an idol to herself, pointing out how her weight, height, and what she wore mattered a lot.
“Hello, friends, several idols I had; friendships and/or relationships money/working, beauty, social media, and secular music. For the longest time, I kept seeking validation from the world. I wanted the nice compliments, the praises, the hyping up, the numbers; you know, the insights of social media were all that mattered. How many people liked that? How many views did that get? Do I look pretty enough? Do I look almost perfect, if not perfect? I really wanted to be seen, so I’d post so many times.
“I was literally also an idol to myself. How I looked, what I wore, my weight, my height, wueh. The thing is, anything good can be an idol. If you are giving it more attention than you are giving God. That’s an idol, my dear; it’s gotta go!” Brendah disclosed.
Brendah on letting go of idols
The content creator further revealed that letting go of idols requires a lot of sacrifices and surrender, noting that taking a three-month social media break after being born again redefined her life.
“These things take so much surrender. You really need to identify them and give them to God; otherwise, they will eat you up. And I am talking in salvation, not before salvation.
“It’s funny how the first thing God made me do when I got back to salvation in 2022 was call me on a social media break for 3 months. It had defined me for so long that I didn’t know who I was outside it,” she said.
When she got back online from a three-month hiatus, Brendah says it felt noisy, and she did not want to be on social media at all, adding that she fell in love with the quietness.
“Here’s the catch: He worked on me so well that when I got back online, it felt noisy, and I didn’t want to be online at all. I fell in love with the quietness. I fell in love with God, and I got to only hear Him validate and speak to me the truths He knows about me.
“Now, I honestly wish none of this existed, and it’s just me and my Maker. He has made me really draw the line to know that these platforms are altars where lives would be changed and souls would be won for the Kingdom of Heaven. So now I serve, with my life and I loudly and proudly shout the words of Acts 20:24 Therefore I consider my life worth nothing to me; my goal is to preach the grace of God all the days of my life,” she added.
On September 5, 2022, Brenda announced that she had given her life to Christ.
Apart from Brendah, on Friday, December 27, 2024, content creator and businesswoman Michelle Ntalami shared a video destroying items she unknowingly made idols before giving her life to Christ.
“God led me to burn and tear down altars of things and items that were either displeasing to Him, or I had unknowingly made idols in my life,” Michelle disclosed.
