Idols travel with their idolaters every place they go. Idols of status, opinions of man, wealth and materialism, security of the future, relationship closeness, control, fame, and self-gratification in all forms travel with idolaters. I want to be your one and only God.
Luke 14:26 If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his [own] father and mother [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God] and [likewise] his wife and children and brothers and sisters—[yes] and even his own life also—he cannot be My disciple.
Mathew 10:37 He who loves [and takes more pleasure in] father or mother more than [in] Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves [and takes more pleasure in] son or daughter more than [in] Me is not worthy of Me;
John 12:25 Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.