Left to our own devices, we will make God in our own image.

What are you really living for? It's crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else. You're always making something look big. If you don't glorify God when you're involved in a conflict, you inevitably show that someone or something else rules your heart.

Thank God for a little holy disobedience.

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

The reality is, when someone knows the truth, knows the will of God, knows what God has spoken , and yet pushes back and doesn’t obey, it is idolatry . The reason? Their will, agenda, wishes, and desires have been placed above God’s. All of these things come before Him, and an idol.

Rest in the knowledge that God is both abundantly gracious and ridiculously generous.