In my morning devotions I have been reading through a book by Dallas Willard and Jan Johnson called Renovating the Heart in Daily Practice. This morning I was confronted with a big idol that I struggle with in my life and I think most of America deals with.

Let me tell you the story.

Dallas was talking about God being in control (not meticulous I might add - Dallas Willard is far form being a card carrying Reformed or TR) and we do not like to submit because that means that we are not in control. Towards the end of the short daily chapter there are exercises to try and the one for today was The Golden Strands a prayer method of Martin Luther's. Willard was giving an example of him praying one day with the ten commandments - he said he thought he he did not need to pray the first two - he had no statues or idols - but he chose to pray it anyway.
Well he was hiking when he did it and he realized that he had a huge idol in front of him..