“I’m just naturally untrusting” - Rene Thompson, a character in a book my dad wrote years ago.
While many of us may not quote Rene exactly - or at least, we wouldn’t say it in so many words, the reality is that quite a lot of people feel that way deep down. We’re not quite so sure we want to trust people, ourselves, or even (and for some people, especially) God. It comes out in our behavior all the time.
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“Complaining is the prayer language of hell.” - Graham Cooke
This week, I want to touch on another aspect of sin that can keep you from entering your destiny quickly - or at all. Last week, I talked about idolatry and its role in keeping people out of their destinies, but this week, I want to talk about an even less popular subject: Complaining. Most of us aren’t aware of how much we complain every day. If we stopped long enough to listen to our words, reread our social media posts, or review the thoughts that were going through our brains, I think we’d be downright shocked at how many complaints are in our hearts. When a lot of us think of idols, we think of statues of wood, bronze, stone, gold, silver, or just about any other readily available material. To many of us, these things are a thing of the past - from Bible times, perhaps. Or if they’re not of the past, they’re definitely confined to less Westernized cultures. After all, we’re simply too concrete to worship something that cannot talk, eat, or do anything else for itself. We’re rational beings!
But the truth is that idols are everywhere. They’re present in everyone’s lives, and the real danger of them is that so many of them are acceptable in our Western culture. They exist in the world, in the church, and in our own lives. |
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