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Whew, that was close. In a whirlwind of romantic notion, I
was tempted to make you my idol. I was tempted to fall at your feet and get
caught up in the hazy vision for the future. I looked to you for your next
move. I waited for you to fix all things, believing that everything would be
all right as long as I “believed.”
Idealism, you make a really lousy idol. Human initiated, human planned, and human flawed, our idealism is bound to disappoint.
Idealism can even paralyze us in making decisions, as it fills us with fear and anxiety and the risk of heartbreak.
Do any of us
really have a clue what we are doing? Do you really trust yourself to make the
big decisions of your life? Will the future look like you think it will? Can
you see into that unknown time ahead? How is it looking? Are you sure? What if?
How many times must God remind me that I am not in charge? Thank goodness for that. So when He showed me that I needed to take idealism down off of the pedestal of my
heart, I listened and didn't wait for the inevitable topple.
It turns out that my world does not revolve around what I
think it does.
My sun does not rise and set with anyone, or anything
created.
There is no foundation that I can build strong enough not to
crack.
The ebb and flow of my days don’t originate with anything
I can drum up.
I can’t keep the world in my pocket and rub it for good
luck.
Instead I fall before the God of creation and restore my
idolism to its rightful status. I will idolize only He that is the Author of
“ideal.”
His world revolves, and He lets me live in it.
He created the sun to rise and to set for His purposes.
I look to the One who can shake the foundations of the very
earth I live on.
There is no stage large enough for Him to play on.
He never stays where I put Him, and He holds the oceans in
the palm of His hand.
He reigns for all eternity in His rightful place.
He is sovereign. His knowledge knows no end.
There is no future for which He has not already accounted
for. There is no plan of which He did not construct. There is no circumstance
that He is not already waiting for me in. There is no era or time in which He
does not rule.
Hang on to your seats folks, the future is looking really,
really terrific :)
