Deep in Thought

My "pic of the day" is in honor of the trivia night we just got back from. Contrary to what this statue suggests, I was not deep in thought for trivia night because for most of the questions I didn't even have an educated guess. I felt very useless. We befriended a couple that was just passing through Columbia on their way to Arkansas and asked them to join our team. Good thing we did, as they ended up knowing the majority of the answers!

Today was my first day back at work from vacation, and I guess you could say I had to be deep in thought compared to what I had been doing for the previous 12 days. So the phrase "deep in thought" was a running theme of today.

Thought For Today

A thought for today was brought up in the church sermon at The Crossing today. The pastor referenced to the oil leak/spill in the Gulf and said that just as it is devastating lives; so are our own "idols" of the heart. How many of us have things (careers, money, success, power, vanity, ect.) that we are so preoccupied with that we put a greater importance on them than God? When this happens, over time it can lead to devastation in our lives. Sometimes God will take these things from us when they become unbalanced in our lives. Or at times God will not give us what we ask for because he knows they will lead to our destruction. There are many different kinds of idols, everything ranging from obsession with money to pleasing others. We each have our own idol(s) and we need to be aware.