The Thing You Can’t Live Without

That's packed with a lot of things we can go through.

What is an idol? When do we recognize an idol? I was talking to a guy yesterday about this, and he was using that in terms of he was recently born again.

He was thinking, when can I start dating a girl? I don't want to date a girl to marry because that could become an idol.

I was like, well, now we're taking it too far.

You're taking what God said is a good thing, and you're saying, God, I only need you, correct? Therefore, I don't want any of your gifts, incorrect.

Right.

I told him, I said, that would be like your mother gets you this incredible gift for Christmas, and you open up the gift, and she goes, what do you think? And you go...

I only want you, Mom.

I could care less about this.

I don't want to focus too much on this.

I don't want to think about this too much because I only need you, Mom.

And to that, Mom would be like, there's a misunderstanding here.

I know you need me.

And we would think the same way about gifts given to us.

And me stepping away from country music and calling it an idol, which I have, sometimes it goes too far with people.

I think that's maybe what this email is about.

It's like, Grainger recognized country music was an idol, and it was.

Therefore, maybe I need to be thinking about what I do, and maybe that's an idol too.

Well, I can see how something that is, that's just start off as very pure, very, very good.

You're using it for the kingdom could gradually as you start losing focus, if you, if you do that.

And I think that's also just in your discipline in how you are in the word, how you, how you're reading and who you surround yourself with.

And

yeah, that's right.

The, the danger is not in the thing, right? The danger is what the heart is demanding from the thing, right? Which is how you know it's an idol.

If you took this away, and sometimes the Lord gives and takes away.