Because it's easy.

So for a while now I have been doing a lot fo thinking over scripture, and my view of God as He has revealed Himself to us in the bible, and I often find that my view of him falls short and sometimes I find myself in danger of creating for myself and idol rather than worshipping the  One True God. I don't think that I am a lone in this struggle, for I see it very often all around me. It is a really easy thing to do, creating an idol. John Calvin of Piper ofr Edawrds or some other insightful John figure once said "That the human heart is an idol factory." and that we are "master craftsmen of idols from birth". I find this all too true in my own heart. I believe that our greatest idol would be ourselves, and that every other thing that we feel tempted to se up as an idol (sex, love, marriage, money, power, etc.) is only tempting to us in so much as it brings us pleasure. These things that can bring us pleasure are more just in roads to being able to worship ourselves and love ourselves above God. If something doesn't bring us pleasure than it often isn't very tempting because we want to be pleased. This is why often the things that become idols or lead us to sin are not evil things or practices but are good things that are raised to place of being ultimate rather than just good, and so we set it up as a greater importance to us than God and buy the lie that it can bring us pleasure and life in greater abundance than God can, and often we become our source of our greatest joy and we want to be made much of rather than making much of God.

So anyway, as I have noticed this propensity in myself to love myself more than others and more than God, it occurred to me that I often do this with scripture and what I choose to believe about God, or rather what my actions demonstrate to myself and others about what I believe to be true about God. It is very easy to more readily accept and believe the easy scritpures that fit in with what I want and what is a norm in my culture rather than having to turn my life and my culture on it's head to live out what I see in scripture. It is easier to recieve scriptures that talk about God making much of me rather than the verses that say that I am like a flower that is blown away like chaff on the wind and I am remembered no more, because the point of it all is God anyway, not me. So there is this huge poropensity in myself to want what I want or believe what I want or think what I want because I want to, and God has a way of  thinking much differently than we do in fact Jesus straight up says in one of the Gospels that God does not value the things that men do. We put a huge empahsis on things that are unimportant and we would quickly take what makes us feel good rather than crucifying our flesh and dying to ourselves to make much of him which is our greatest joy anyway.

I dunno I could probably go on long tangent off of all of this, but it would be fruitless I just wanted to make anew post now that my facebook is gone and try to get in the habit of getting on here occasionally to share thoughts. I have just found God taking my view of Him and my interpretation of scrioture and flipping it on it's head, and I just wonder how much of scirpture do we interpret because it is the way that we've been told to interpret it all of our lives or because it easier or more comfortable to do so, and I know that in myself it is very easy to it for both of those reasons, but I know that my God is much bigger than I often see him to be and I don't want a lifeless idol of my own creating, I want to truly know God and walk with Him. So anyway, those are my thoughts, now I gotta go to work.