{"id":21385,"date":"2014-08-21T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=21385"},"modified":"2014-08-20T18:39:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T22:39:43","slug":"21385","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/21\/21385\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Can Be an Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SeekingHimLogo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Not to us, O Lord, not to us, But to Your name give glory
\nBecause of Your loving kindness, because of Your truth.
\nWhy should the nations say, \u201cWhere, now, is their God?\u201d
\nBut our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases.
\nTheir idols are silver and gold, The work of man\u2019s hands.
\nThey have mouths, but they cannot speak; They have eyes, but they cannot see;
\nThey have ears, but they cannot hear; They have noses, but they cannot smell;
\nThey have hands, but they cannot feel; They have feet, but they cannot walk;
\nThey cannot make a sound with their throat.
\nThose who make them will become like them, Everyone who trusts in them.
\nO Israel, trust in the Lord; He is their Help and their Shield.
\nO house of Aaron, trust in the Lord; He is their Help and their Shield.
\nYou who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord; He is their Help and their Shield.
\nPsalms 115:1-11<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir idols are silver and gold…\u201d \u2014and jobs and people, and money, and dreams, and aspirations, and things, simple things. \u00a0We place these things above our Heavenly Father; and we put a value on these things that we shouldn\u2019t. \u00a0There are days when I ask myself where my cell phone is…but have I asked myself when the last time is that I prayed? \u00a0I wonder if my check is going to be on time…but was I on time when God nudged me to minister to that woman the other day?<\/p>\n

This passage reminds me how easy it is to fall into the trap of letting life and all that it entails become our idol; and the trap of looking to other people and to other things to fill the void only the Lord our God can fill. \u00a0This Scripture also reminds me that through it all, He is still there\u2014His loving-kindness, His truth. When we find ourselves focusing on other things around us, we need to step back and remember that He is our Help and our Shield; we trust in Him and not in the things of this world.<\/p>\n

\u00a0*<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s Pray<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Dear Heavenly Father, life has so many distractions that it is easy for us to place them higher in our life than we should. \u00a0Thank You for Your loving kindness, for Your grace, and mercy. In Jesus\u2019 Name I pray, Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not to us, O Lord, not to us, But to Your name give glory Because of Your loving kindness, because of Your truth. Why should the nations say, \u201cWhere, now, is their God?\u201d But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases. Their idols are silver and gold, The work of man\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[3367,1287,425,7074,3174,7112,1075,7113],"class_list":["post-21385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-psalms-1151-11","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-the-distractions-of-life-can-be-an-idol","tag-tonya-ellison","tag-trust-in-god-not-the-things-of-this-world","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s39pHp-21385","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21390,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21385\/revisions\/21390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}