A friend at church likes to say that it's not how green the grass is on the other side, but how much you clean up the dog crap on your side. Cleaning up the crap of idols can really make a difference to one's outlook.
It's funny because I wanted to fight that filling in the blank of that question reveals our idols, and in a way I think it is overly simplistic (to want something is not automatically to make it an idol in one's life, IMO, and if I recognize a new job is a gift from God and praise Him for it, as long as I don't make my praise conditional (job: check, next: car), that can be positive, has a testimony value, etc), but I also think it is very telling - if I come up with a list of 10 items for that question, and they include house, car, job, spouse, etc, then yah I have definitely lost focus on God, and need to realize that and return to Him.
Phew, that comment was a little overly nested, haha.
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It's funny because I wanted to fight that filling in the blank of that question reveals our idols, and in a way I think it is overly simplistic (to want something is not automatically to make it an idol in one's life, IMO, and if I recognize a new job is a gift from God and praise Him for it, as long as I don't make my praise conditional (job: check, next: car), that can be positive, has a testimony value, etc), but I also think it is very telling - if I come up with a list of 10 items for that question, and they include house, car, job, spouse, etc, then yah I have definitely lost focus on God, and need to realize that and return to Him.
Phew, that comment was a little overly nested, haha.