Idolize Yourself

Tonight is the season premier of American Idol.  I found this image while exploring the show's website.

"Idolize yourself."

Seeing the words stated so plainly caught my attention. Though we hear the message everyday, idolizing self used to have a negative connotation and seemed to be woven through advertising more discretely.  It seems as though it's become okay...even out loud.

Introductions

I have a clear picture in my head of a child building a house with popsicle sticks and glue. Can you see it? The sticky white Elmer’s glue oozes through the seams of the lopsided wooden structure and trails onto the table and into the hands of the little one.

Sometimes I feel like the little kid building a popsicle house. Meanwhile God is standing right in front of me, offering me a mansion of brick and mortar. It’s bigger and better than anything I could imagine. But I don’t have time to look away from my timid little building. I go about adding one more drop of glue, one more support beam, one more responsibility, one more ministry, one more great decision…

"I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel ... Now that you know God--or rather are known by God--how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable principles?  Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?" 

-Galatians 1:6, 4:9

I'm on a new journey to put aside the popsicle sticks and let God build something much better.