(picture compliments of Jesse…)

What do you worship?  I have recently been challenged with the thought that my fears and desires are so often linked to what I worship.  In fact, my desires can be so contrary to what God’s desires are for me!  We have been talking in small group about how we are all worshipers—It is simply a matter of what or who we worship.  All to often it seems that I worship comfort, approval, control, and productivity.  (Or all of them mixed together under some sort of seemingly spiritual umbrella for me sometimes.)  Wow, to think that I desire, and thus, come to fear all the wrong things sometimes.  I have so much to sort through!

Yet in all of our waywardness, God desires our holiness.  I can be so oblivious to the mixed allegiances in my heart.  But God, (to use the emphatic biblical-like transition) enters in to test my heart and expose my heart’s true desires so that I can ultimately see and then repent with His perspective.  Exodus 16:12 talks about how through this testing, ‘you shall know me deeply’.  Oh, wow….I’m still trying to wrap my head and heart around it all.