The Struggle Beneath the Struggle

The struggle beneath the struggle is our identity. There is always a side that we hide. And where does your identity come from? I think our identity are from the things that we elevate ourselves with and become our supreme focus, our chief pursues in life. We begin to focus on those things, it begins to shape our identity and it control our life. It is an idolatry. John Calvin said that “Human’s heart is an idol making factory.”. Our heart elevates things and we do everything to pursue that thing and it begins to shape every aspect of our life. Here’s what we do sometimes in our life, sometimes we remove God in His righteous place and we elevate some other things sometimes it is even a good thing, acceptance, love, relationship. If He's your number one everything will lineup, everything will follow. When we begin to elevate things to the supreme place that God should only be in we find ourselves in a pattern seeking those things more than anything else. We find ourselves in a miserable place. John Calvin said that human’s heart is an idol-making factory but I want to dig in on that “A broken human’s heart is an idol making factory. We create these things that are good but they became ultimate things like acceptance, love, and relationship. May be somehow in our life there was this kind of wounded experience that we have some type of moment of brokenness where we were rejected or we were hurt by someone, may be our father didn't love us or our mother didn't accept. I heard someone said before “When there’s wound there is a whisper”. There are those moments where we were wounded or something happened and when the enemy comes around us and it began to whisper lies. When there's a decision that we have to make will you believe on that whisper or the other whisper which is the whisper of the Holy Spirit 

There will be a whisper that will tell you that no one will ever accept you, no one will ever love you and you’ll never be good enough, which are all lies. And because our heart got broken and we began to form an idol, an idol of acceptance and an idol of approval. So, this is how it goes you have some wounded experience and you began to forms idols.