Just had a good devotional today thought I would share it with anyone who is interested.
Most people look at the sunset and think of how the sun is going down. The truth is we are moving as a planet around the sun. This has such an amazing spiritual revelation, and I believe God created the universe to emphazie that it is not the "son" that revolves around us, but us that revolves around the "Son"
In real terms, your "god" isn't what you say you believe in, it's whatever you revolve your life around, what you think about most of the time, what you spend your time and money on, whatever is your bottom line in your life-choices. Obviously, we are to "love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength" (Deuteronomy 6:5). He is the sun in the universe of every life. Everyone and everything else is just a planet that is supposed to revolve around Him, and our beliefs agree with that. It's our everyday behavior that's the problem. It could be that at this moment in your life, you're actually revolving around one of the planets in your life, and you're treating Jesus like He should revolve around it, too.
Maybe the real "sun" in your personal universe is your children. They're supposed to be very important to you, but not the center of your life. Maybe your marriage or your strong desire to be married is what you've put at the center. Your business or your career could become an idol, a relationship, your stuff, your plans, even your ministry can become an idol; you've started serving the work instead of serving the Lord.
If the sun were ever to leave its place at the center of our solar system, it would mess up everything else. When you put what's supposed to be a "planet" in your life at the center, nothing works right. And it could be that Jesus is not really the sun around which everything else in your life is revolving right now and the result is going to be chaos, confusion, and collapse.
That's why this wakeup call from God - to put the sun - actually, the Son of God - back at the center of everything you're about.
The first commandment in Exodus 20:3 says, "You shall have no other gods before Me."
So what does your life revolve around, yourself, your family, your work, your sport, your friends. None of these things are evil, but they are not what is supposed to be the center - that is only reserved for the "SON" Jesus Christ.
And then yourself, your family, your friends, your word, your ministry, your life will be in order and you can be who God has called you to be in these important places and people God has put in your life.
Hope this helps someone.
Josh
