What are you afraid of?
Tim Keller of the Redeemer Presbyterian Church in NYC, is credited with saying that if you want to know what you worship, you need to know what you fear. Once you know what you fear, you’ll not only recognize its redeemer, but will also realize that it is that savior you worship
In the home school realm, if your greatest fear is raising a household of average
children, your redeemer will be those programs that ensure accelerated learning and your god becomes academic success.
Or maybe your primary fear is to be disliked by your peers. So you dress their dress, use their curriculum, listen to their music and worship the savior of approval.
If you are the parents of older children, maybe your biggest fear is the stigma of an unmarried son or daughter. So you compromise in ways you would have never imagined, in order to see your child arrive at the marriage altar.
Last week, our son Abel graduated from firefighter recruit school. The hardest part of this training has not been the exposure to all the ‘potty-mouths’ in the classes; it has been the seemingly solitary battle against self-glorification. For many of his peers, their greatest fear is drifting though life unnoticed. They look to self-glory to save them from invisibility and their desire for admiration easily infects those around them. Because glory seeking can become an all- consuming passion for any one of us, we need to fight daily to make sure that the praise of man is never our designated savior.
Ultimately Jesus is the only Savior worthy of worship, and our only fear should be eternal separation from God Himself. Thank God for friends and families who faithfully point us in the right direction, toward Him.
