cool stuff:
http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/resources/video/The-Grand-Demythologizer-The-Gospel-and-Idolatry
that is awesome. I think I know all to well what my idols are. I think I have a hard time resisting the idol of romance. I like being needed and I feel like I'm not a lot of the time. It's hard. Right now the bottom line is that girls just complicate things, I'm not ready for that kind of thing with them, and they aren't ready for me either. Friendship seems to last longer anyway haha. Pastor Keller is totally right when he says that idols destroy rather than fulfill like we think they will. I can't tell you how many friendships have been ruined because of that particular one for me. I'm sorry for that if you are one of the girls who has been affected by that. I have been very selfish. The best cure for these types of things though is just to fall more in love with Jesus :-D which is awesome because that sounds very appealing to me haha.
not cool stuff:
I've really been fighting wanting things from people and its a hard beast to put down. I honestly believe that I don't have the right to expect anything from anyone, but its easier said than done as far as living that way goes. Our culture thrives on ideology which is in my opinion a hinderance to the gospel. It makes Jesus some abstract idea instead of a part of the God who interacts with the world, loving, sustaining, and caring for her. How can I see God correctly if I can't view other people correctly? (vice versa is true also) I'm so tired of the little boxes I have people in.
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