"Only One Deserves The Pedestal"

April 09, 2026 | By Chuck

It is so easy, so normal, and so much our culture to watch someone on television and quickly place them on a pedestal.  You know the pedestal I’m referring to.  It is that place where we put those, we most admire.  Our favorite athlete, actor, singer or whomever else we look up to goes atop the pedestal.  Our modern culture places so many wealthy and influential people on a pedestal.  They are lifted above everyone else as if to send the message that we all need to be like them.  

            The problem with the “pedestal treatment” is that all men and women, no matter how famous or wealthy, are all fallible.  What I mean is that to put anyone on a pedestal is to put them in a place to fall and fail.  We all fail.  None of us deserve to be on a pedestal.  How many celebrities, who are idolized by the world, have served multiple stints in jail or drug rehabs.  How many idolized sports figures have fallen from their man-made pedestal because of domestic violence charges or their serial infidelities.  How many times must one fall from the pedestal before we realize no man deserves to be placed on a pedestal. 

            “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15).  Jesus is the only individual who has ever walked this planet and never sinned.  It is irrelevant how far one can hit a ball.  It does not matter how many movies an actor has made.  In the big picture, who really cares who is the best singer?  There is only one individual who deserves to be on the pedestal of our heart and that is Jesus.  Jesus not only deserves to be on the pedestal of your heart; He desires that place in your heart.  Stop placing men and women on a pedestal and give all honor and glory to the One who should be exalted.

            “….at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil. 2:10-11).