Hidden Idolatry

Even with truth living in and around me, somehow the lie came along too.

I believed in Jesus so young. No major questions, just a big Yes, I believe. I don’t ever remember saying yes to the lie, but it followed me anyway.

It’s the oldest lie on the books, the same lie that poisoned Eden. It wears the mask of something more, something better. But it spoils. After it weasels in to take root in our hearts.

God doesn’t truly love you, not enough. You need more. That’s the lie.

Did you know we can hold the truth in one hand, and reach for something better with the other?

We live in such a broken-down place, but we still build our towers to the skies. We fill ourselves up, or we try.

Even when we hold the truth, we can be living under the influence of the lies.

We need to remember, on thousands of days–God loves us. Oh, how He loves and made a way to rescue us. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. He who came not to condemn the world, but to save it.

And we need to be reminded, Jesus is enough. He didn’t only die for us. He was raised to life for us. Because He IS life, and He wants to create new life in us.

Why do we still look for life in other places? We wouldn’t usually call it that. Okay, we’d never call it that.

But the root of all our sin is—we desire created things more than we desire the Creator. We are idolaters, of the hidden kind.

We need to remember who God is, and we need to remember who we are. And then, the only way for us, is to repent.

We need revival, the life of Jesus poured into us.

It starts here. Not at a spectacular event. Not under a big tent on a summer evening with a preacher’s voice booming and a call to come forward.

But here, in my heart, in the middle of April at my kitchen desk. With the Word open and my heart open. In this moment, I desire nothing more than Him. And when I stray from here, I need this revival again. {So I will need it by tomorrow. But actually much sooner.}

My life, in Christ, depends on it.

So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives IN HIM, rooted and built up in Him… Colossians 2:6-7