What Do You Need?
Let me ask you a question. What do you think you need? If you are the average person, you probably would answer that question monetarily or materially. In other words, you would say that what you need is something money can buy. Often we fantasize how different our lives would be if we just had more money to buy more things. But would this really change us?
Listen to actor Will Smith on money: “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” How true this is! Your basic problem is not the lack of things but the posture you take toward those things. God made us to love Him and to use things. Because of sin our tendency is to do the opposite—to use God and to love things. This leaves us assuming the foolish notion that we can manipulate God in order to get the things that we want. But this is the essence of idolatry—as the Apostle Paul says, “worshipping and serving the creation rather than the Creator” (Romans 1). Of course, this is not to say that material things are bad. It is just to say that they are not God. They, too, are created things, and so are to be considered our peers and not our Prince.
We were made for God. If our lives are not centered on Him, that void will be filled by something else. We will find something, some created thing, to center on, to divinize. The problem is that no created thing can change us—really—for no mere thing can address the core issue for which we were made. Only the Creator can do this.
Something to think about from “The Kingdom Perspective”.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
~Romans 1:25 NIV
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