This last week David Matthis posted the following quote from D.A. Carson on the Desiring God blog.

The Christian’s whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him…. Lying at the heart of all sin is the desire to be the center, to be like God. So if we take on Christian service, and think of such service as the vehicle that will make us central, we have paganized Christian service; we have domesticated Christian living and set it to servitude in a pagan cause. (57—58)

Do you see this in yourself? Do you see this in your children? It’s there and its ugly. We can so easily take good things and turn them into instruments for serving sin.  Praise God for the cross where Jesus took the Father’s wrath for our self-idolatry!

Let us relentlessly make God and His glory central if we are going to fight the self-worshiping tendency in us all. And it is a fight, isn’t it? May God give grace through His Spirit for this fight.

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