Near and Far Faith

That's what I have to say about my Tuesday morning. Let me bring you up to speed... well first let me say that this tragedy has caused a lack of blogging - no that your bated breath has been overwhelming.

It was a good morning - I had some tasks to accomplish but I was confident and ready to start the day. Until I walked over to may car that was parked across the street from my house and saw only wires hanging out of my dash where my radio had been. The radio that I searched for and endlessly to get the right price AND attach my ipod to. But that doesn't really upset me - the radio. Yeah... they took my ipod too. Charger cable and all.

For any forensic experts, let me describe the scene: it was decently clean except for a bit of dirt on my seat. The radio had been carefully removed, not ripped, out of the dash.

Anyway... my ipod has left a hole in my heart. I didn't know how much I truly loved this piece of technology.

The application or lesson from this story? Godly enough, I was teaching on God as our father Tuesday night as part of our series on Romans with Ignite. It's a series I bought from Doug Field's vault on confidence. I was proud of my ipod. I admit that having one was a status symbol. Could I get a cheaper off-brand MP3 player? Sure. But I had an ipod. I have been made aware, as I shared with Ignite, of my confidence being misplaced. I'm a pastor though and that means I can really cover things like this and argue my confidence onto God, when it's really not there at all.