Family Values

Can a good thing be an idol?  I mean a really good thing, say, family values.  Anything that comes before God is an idol and that would include things that we should stand up and fight for such as family values.
Leah and lived in the shadow of her beautiful younger sister all her life and suddenly she finds herself as the wife of a man who is in love with her younger sister.  She then set out to fill a void in her heart by having her husband love her.  She had four sons in a row and for each of the first three she thought that by having a son her husband would love her.
Her first son was Reuben, so named because it means "surely my husband will love me now".
Her second son was named Simeon because it means that she was not loved.
Her next son was named Levi so named because she said that surely he will become attached to me.
Her forth son was Judah and this time there was no mention of her husband or her family but only her God.  His named meant, "Yahweh is praised."  Finally Leah had a break through and saw that her true value was not found in her husband or her children but in her God.  
Leah felt that she was the woman that no one loved but in the end her son Judah was the ancestor of the greater Judah, Jesus Christ, who was the man that nobody wanted.  He became the man that nobody wanted for you and for me.  He came to redeem us and we need to stop trying to redeem ourselves and come to him for our redemption.  The only way we can get rid of an old affection is to have a new and greater one.  We should not get rid of the good but learn to love the greater, our Lord Jesus Christ.