my facedown

isaiah 2:6-9

God, you’ve walked out on your family Jacob because their world is full of hokey religion, Philistine witchcraft, and pagan hocus-pocus, a world rolling in wealth, stuffed with things, no end to its machines and gadgets, and gods – gods of all sorts and sizes.  These people make their own gods and worship what they make.  A degenerate race, facedown in the gutter.  Don’t bother with them! They’re not worth forgiving!

how often have i thought of my own religion as hokey? i live in and love the world of wealth that i occupy.  i love things.  there is no end to our machines and gadgets.  how do i live here and not idolize things?  how do i get over the wealth that we are rolling in?   how do i stop worshiping the things i have made?  do i actually feel like i am a degenerate race, that i am facedown in the gutter?

YOU. the only answer can be YOU.  i believe that YOU have moved into the neighborhood.  that YOU have invaded my life.  that YOUR kingdom is here.  that YOU have not left me to my own hands, my own works, my own demise.  YOU have saved me, YOU are saving me, and YOU are alive in me.  YOUR spirit lives in me and there is nothing, nothing, nothing, no thing that matters in comparison to that.

give me focus today.  open up my eyes to the things unseen.

“i will see GOD wring glory from my life some where, some way, some how.”  -Steven Furtick