“Lord, please remove all the idols I have unintentionally placed on the throne of my heart.”
An idol isn’t just a golden statue.
An idol is anything you love more than God,
anything you fear more than God,
or anything you trust more than God.
Sometimes our idol is our career.
Sometimes it is our children.
Sometimes it is our pain.
We center our entire lives around these things until they block our view of Heaven.
This prayer is dangerous because God will answer it.
He will start removing the things you are gripping too tightly.
He will shake your false security.
But He does it for a beautiful reason.
He wants you to realize that if you lose it all but still have Him,
you haven’t lost a thing.
You have simply traded the temporary for the Eternal.
📖Psalm 73:25-26
Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.