“Anything I put before my God is an idol
Anything I want with all my heart is an idol
And anything I can’t stop thinking of is an idol
And anything that I give all my love is an idol.”
-“Clear the Stage”- Jimmy Needem
I am not sure if you have heard this song. If you haven’t, I suggest you do. If you have, what’s your thoughts? This song does so many things to me. It’s convicting. It’s beautiful. It’s so so raw. It’s truthful. It’s hard to swallow. It’s hard to think about and just all around messes with MY idea of God.
The way this song is written is beautiful. More importantly I really think it’s an idea that we need to constantly check our hearts for. The line “anything I want with all my heart is an idol” is powerful in itself. But how many things do we really want with all our hearts? How many things can we not stop thinking about? Or how many things do we give all of our love to? I am not even going to go in to detail but I am sure most people know what my idols are.
I have so many things in my life that I have put my all in to. I have some of the greatest blessings that live across the ocean from me that I possibly think about more than I think about the one who created them. I have things that I want so badly that I pray so much for when I lack even a right relationship with who I am praying to. I hope to see physical things come to play in my life time more than I hope to know my God more. My heart breaks for the injustices of this world more than it cares to reach out to the only hope I have and thank Him for the justice which has been served thus far. I pray for mountains to be moved so that I can accomplish something I want for myself and forget to thank the one who moved the mountains. I have so many idols. So many things, ideas, obsessions that I think about more than the One who deserves all the glory.
This past week was one of great importance to me. It was a week of clarity, beauty, fellowship, love and peace. It was a week of challenging questions, difficult answers, tears, broken hearts and sad faces. Most of all it was a week of casting down idols and remembering the true reason for the life I live.
May this next year be about just that. May it be about Him who calls us to do the things we do instead of about the things we are doing. May we get caught more in the presence of Him than our idea of what we can do for Him. May we love Him more than we love the things of this world. May our hearts and minds be cleaned from our selfish desires and may He take first place in our lives. May we let Him shine more.
This is what I want the WR to be about for me. Finding out how to cast away the idols that I put before God and allowing Him to live through me.
I don’t want my idols. I want more of You.
