What can I say? It's all about choices. Every single day of our lives, we make choices... consciously or unconsciously. There is nothing we can do without this process. Well, we could CHOOSE to not make choices.
With all the choices we have to make, there is one driving factor...our desire. Let me state here that not all desires are bad. There are some desires that we have that lead us to God or more healthy desire (i.e. wanting to vacation in a certain place or to do a certain job). What I am speaking of here is the over desire that we have. It is this desire that cause us to make the bad choices that we make...or to put off on doing what we really ought to be doing.
This over desire can is called an idol (or idolatry). The definition of idolatry is the extreme admiration, love, or reverence for something or someone. Some examples of this would be money, your job, your child, your husband, your car, etc. These may be very obvious however, there are some that may not be as obvious such as time or comfort or control. We should all know that this is sin as we are placing something above God. We place our hopes and dreams into something that may or may not deliver. If it does delivery, what did it cost us?
Why do we (or you) love these things so much? What is it about them that causes us to place so much value and/or confidence in them? What is it that they can do that God can't?
So I ask you....what forms of idolatry do you have in your life? EVERYONE has them. If you can't think of one...try asking yourself, when something goes wrong, what/who do I turn to?
Today, it's just food for thought.
Here are some treasures:
Proverbs 19:21
Matthew 7:13-14
Galatians 6:7-8
2 Corinthians 5:17
Proverbs 4:5-9
~O.C.
~O.C.
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