So, I know that some of you went to CIY this summer and were faced with the whole story of Moses and the Israelites and their golden calf. I know that you had to create a representation of your own false idols and demolish them. So, for most of you, this isn't new territory--this idea that we all fall short--we all manage to screw our priorities way up.
The last paragraph of this chapter reads:
...I knew Christ, but I was not a practicing Christian. I had the image of a spiritual person, but I was bowing down to the golden cows of religiosity and philosophy. It was one of those enlightenments, one of those honest looks in the mirror in which there is no forgetting who you are. It was a moment without make-believe...
I really experienced that with this chapter--all THREE times I have read it, I have had to take yet another "honest look in the mirror" and I am ashamed that, after three times, I am STILL missing opportunities left and right to be authentic and genuine. I am struggling STILL with reaching out to the broken. I am struggling STILL with not just getting completely ticked off when people fall short of my expectations (or unfortunately live up to them when my expectations are so low). I am STILL a fighter by nature and I struggle almost daily with biting my tongue when someone comes after one of my own. And, I'm not sure why I keep falling down, but I'm pretty sure it has to do with the fact that I haven't really tried hard enough to put some things behind me.
I guess, my question is, how are you guys handling your false idols--"our tiny invisible friends"? Are you still struggling with the same things you owned up to this summer? If not, what have you done to make sure that doesn't happen? I could really use the advice! If you are, what are we doing wrong?
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Uhm;I am struggling with my idol still.But its in different ways. I have to keep conciously telling myself that God Blessed me with Basketball. That he is the only reason i have it. When i am playin of thinking about it. My mind gets off track and I focus to much on basketball and the game not the real reason. I am trying this thing with my key chain.It sounds really stupid but i used to have two basketballs on their but one fell off so now i have one but i dont have any crosses or anything like that. I play and look at my key chain alot so i am going to put a cross right next to my basketball. That way when i look at it i see God first then basketball. and Hopefully if i keep remindin myself that God comes beofre basketball i will stat to like "believe" it. I shouldnt have to do that but the world makes it so easy to forget that God is there and a girl gotta do what a girls gotta do to remember where her talents came from. I dont know if that made since to anyone but it did to me..
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