Fidelity

“When a finite value [becomes a center of value by which other values
are judges and] has been elevated to centrality and imagined as a
final source of meaning, then one has chosen what Jews and Christians
call a god…To be worshipped as a god, something must be sufficiently
good to be plausibly regarded as the rightful center of one’s
valuing…One has a god when a finite value is worshipped and adored and
viewed as that without which one cannot receive life joyfully.”
-Thomas Oden

      1. What do you most highly value?
      2. What do you think about by default?
      3. What is your hightest goal?
      4. To what or whom are you most commited?
      5. Who or what do you love the most?
      6. Who or what do you trust or depend upon the most?
      7. Who or what do you fear the most?
      8. Who or what do you hope in and hope for most?
      9. Who or what do you desire the most? Or, what desire makes
you most angry or makes you despair when it is not satisfied?
     10. Who or what do you most delight in, your greatest joy and treasure?
     11. Who or what captures your greatest zeal?
     12. To whom or for what are you most thankful?
     13. For whom or what great purpose do you work?

“Sin isn’t only doing bad things, it is more fundamentally making good
things into ultimate things. Sin is building your life and meaning on
anything, even a very good thing, more than on God. Whatever we build
our life on will drive us and enslave us. Sin is primarily idolatry…
Instead of telling them they are sinning because they are sleeping
with their girlfriends or boyfriends, I tell them they are sinning
because they are looking to their careers and romances to save them,
to give them everything that they should be looking for in God. This
idolatry leads to drivenness, addictions, sever anxiety,
obsessiveness, envy of others and resentment.” -Tim Keller