Looking For Good – Kristin Sterk

The thought, “Oh, I ought to get that” involves thoughts. You decide up your cellphone, Google or search on Amazon for the merchandise. Minutes flip into a number of searches. Perhaps even hours of scrolling. Then it turns into days of obsessively researching. In search of what?

The “good” merchandise.

Your partner asks you to exit to eat. You search close by eating places, on the lookout for the “proper” place, studying all of the opinions. All in hopes of discovering the “greatest” restaurant.

Now we have an ailment, so we flip to WebMD, to hopefully calm our worries, trying to find the very best prognosis. However everyone knows what occurs subsequent, as a substitute of stilling fears, it solely will increase them, as we try to turn into our personal physician, searching for to realize management of what we are able to’t.

I’m going to say what we already know, however I fall into this entice OFTEN:

WE WILL NEVER FIND THE PERFECT ITEM OR THING.

That is SUCH A CHALLENGE FOR ME!

We stay our lives, specializing in the issues round us, to fulfill us. We stay our lives trusting the opinions of others, to dictate our lives. The place we eat. What we purchase. Once we go to the physician. How will we even know that these opinions are legit? We wish to assume they’re, however how do we actually know? In the event you actually give it some thought, we enable folks we don’t know, to dictate the place we eat! Fascinating. Who says they’ve the identical style buds as us? If somebody advised me to get the most popular sauce at Buffalo Wild Wings as a result of it was the very best, my palate could be screaming at them.

What if we stepped away from what our screens inform us and simply go to a restaurant that sounds good? Think about this: We will make choices with no need opinions and exterior knowledge to inform us what to do!

Now let me converse from the opposite aspect. What if we trusted God in the best way we belief different’s opinions and opinions? As a substitute of looking for good on this earth (which we by no means will), we study from the One who IS good? What if we went to the Bible as a substitute of Google? As a substitute of unlocking our telephones, we unlocked God’s phrase and allowed His knowledge to infiltrate our curious minds and stay within the freedom that the opposite issues don’t matter as a lot?

Like I stated, I wish to problem myself on this too – what if we spent much less time looking for “good” on Google, and relied extra on our good GOD to information our steps by trusting the instinct He has given us. That even with out Google, we are able to too, could make choices as a result of GOD has given us the brains to take action!

Search God. Not Google. For God is all we’ll ever want!