Honesty

April 20, 2009 in Prayer/Faith with 1 Comment

I don’t even think I can add to this.  So I’m just posting this quote, and leaving it open for comments.

Honesty is such a precious commodity that it is seldom found in the world of the church.  Honesty requires the truthfulness to admit the attachment and addictions that control our attention, dominate our consciousness, and function as false gods.  I can be addicted to vodka or to being nice, to marijuana or being loved, to cocaine or being right, to gambling or relationships, to golf or gossiping.  Perhaps my addiction is food, performance, money, popularity, power, revenge, reading, television, tobacco, weight, or winning.  When we give anything more priority than we give to God, we commit idolatry.  Thus we all commit idolatry countless times every day.

-Brennan Manning
The Ragamuffin Gospel

  • http://www.shalomexistence.com Andrea

    It is so hard and so humbling to realize how much none of us has it all together! I guess in a way it brings us together, we’re all imperfect, and Jesus knew that. Admitting it and trying to realize those things we need help in though, that is difficult.