Daydream Believer

Many of us have heard the story of idols in the Old Testament. These towering statues and personal deities that litter the homes of the ancients. Objects they would worship and abandon their previous God for, yet sometimes we find, especially with the Israelites, this divided heart between their idols and Yahweh.

    And this is what I find interesting in these verses. You have these Israelites with their tokens of wood and stone. Things that they’ve spent their days toying around with and finding fantasy in, yet they’re so quick to drop them. That when tribulation comes, they turn and call upon the Lord for His salvation. As if they were blind before but suddenly awakened to their need for Him. And it makes me wonder. Did they even realize the idol worship and sin they were engaged in as they bumbled back to God’s altar? Was this a predetermined transgression of idol worship or simply them thinking they were living their normal lives?

   For me, this is a dangerous question. It’s convicting because it makes me wonder about myself. Do I even realize the idols that I’ve put before God? What handful of tokens do I discard and pretend not to know when life’s difficulties arrive? And why have I been allowing myself to carry them for so long?

A helpful question I find is: What have I been daydreaming about?

    What are those things, people, tales, or entities, that have captured my attention? The ones I sit and reflect on without a thought or effort throughout my day. Those things of this earth that I readily carve my time into. For it’s those moments of fancy that point to where my heart is drifting. So, where is it headed? Leaning toward God and his goodness, or those worldly items I’ll be embarrassed to be found clinging to when I call upon my Savior. Your birthday is a great time to ponder this truly important question.

Benjamin C

  ’94 / ’14  Sioux Falls SD

Doris Jean H

’44 / ’55 Manheim PA