The Third Exchange (II)

They say, whoever they is, that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.  More likely it is the road filled with choices that speak of compromise, actions that are based on the end justifying any means, and the desire to be in charge of our life.  This description of the road too often traveled is surely the one which beings with it a decision to "worship and serve the creature rather than the Creator."  (Romans 1:25)  It may not be a decision made with a lot of fanfare, but is often one made somewhere in the recesses of the subconscious where consequences are not always counted.     

There is no god so small as the one created by our own ego; yet, it is a deity we so easily put on the throne.  The Word tells us in countless ways that our human nature is most fully realized when the Creator God is at its center.  Human nature is not something which expresses the sin present in us, but that part of us which most clearly reflects the essence of God within us.  It flourishes not in an ego centered life, but in one that is Creator centered.    

When life is ego centered, it is natural to justify choices which are inconsistent with what is understood to be both the will and Word of God.  If what God desires for us does not placate the ego part of us, then the ego gives us permission to put it in the box marked irrelevant and not true.  Many a wrong choice has been made because we seek to worship and serve our ego instead of allowing God to be the ultimate and absolute One in our life.  To be fully human is not having the freedom to live under the dictates of our self seeking ego, but in choosing to live under the authority of the Creator who brought us into being.