June 19, 2020
We pick and choose our idols.
Everyone of us!
The battle for righteousness against self is something else. Paul said this in Romans 7:19, “I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.” He shows us that every SOUL fights against its idols, high places. He reminds us that we must vigorously work out our faith with fear and trembling.
are simply “the high things” we exalt above God’s intention, His endgame. They can range from common idols like money and merchandising to the kind of idols we create in cultures and institutions around things like politics or our favorite sins. Rest assured, we all have this battle no matter how long we have been saved, how revelatory we are or how much we prophesy.
Just because we don’t recognize them as idols doesn’t mean that they aren’t.
Just because we justify the high place doesn’t mean Christ agrees. Rather, it simply confirms just how much we need a Holy God and how critical it is for us to “long and thirst after a crushed heart before Him.”
I want a crushed heart.
Sons long for this posture MORE than any other position, idea, philosophy, etc. in Christ. They long for it more than flipped sides of coins. They long for it more than human alliances.
Our greatest prayer should hedge itself in the greatest commandments: “Lord, my greatest natural and spiritual desire is to supernaturally love you and love my neighbor as myself.”
Today, I have been asking the Lord to bring me into this place greater than He ever has before.
When Jesus intervened for the woman accused of adultery, those who felt justified in their accusations toward her tried to trap Him in His response to intervene and help. They used scripture for their entrapment and tried to guilt him with laws and ridiculous human reasoning and rhetoric.
They couldn’t understand scriptures of condemnation (law) when faced with love’s intervention until the tables were turned on them… and realization came saying: Who here is without sin… you cast the first stone?
Truth doesn’t dissipate just because sacrificial love shows up. Rather, we have to see sacrificial love, embrace it and put it in “compassions” perspective. Christ framed His profound words in a way that released realization and intention—— His intention, His endgame.
Can our idols come down? Can our high places be placed under the feet of Christ? Can we choose the better part —- beyond ourselves?
If the history of a people teaches us anything, it’s that the battles and wars before us seldom lead to peace. But the history of Sons reveal a profound, selfless understanding of the Blood of Christ that covered Abel’s “blood-demand” in an earnest reality of life and death under the sun: “There’s no greater love than for a man to lay down His life for a friend.”
Let EVERY high place come down IN ME. Holy Spirit will answer this daily prayer. May God’s endgame be yours. May Christ’s accomplished dream be yours. May our roots grow deep and sober thinking prevail in all matters of human concern. May we be image and likeness. #chamberofthescribe
