Children are god!!!

David Crowder wrote a song with the line 'I'm so tired of little gods'. Lately I've been thinking about 'little gods' I know in my life there has been many little gods that have usurped Jesus as the centre of my life. Read any of my blogs and you'll see how relationship is a major part of my life and how I 'do' my life. I think that's ok but the down side to that is that if I am not aware I can make little gods out of people. Now if you talk to people who love me and know me they will list a few people who I have put on a pedestal (and if you want to know who they are then you'll have to ask them!) In my life my children have been put up there as little gods. As a single parent for many years it was very difficult not to............I mean what else did I have to live for?
I read a very sad article this week in G2 about a mother who took her own life in the very same way as her daughter had done some months previously. My sadness was deepened by the writer of that article who was herself a mother and who's daughter had also took her own life and who said that her whole life had fallen apart and some days she had nothing to live for................ yep like me. Its so easy to put those who we love so much as the foundation on which we build our lives. I shouldn't need to say this but for clarity's sake I've got to say that if I lost either of my children I would be devastated but my life is not built on them it is built on Jesus. I am recently married and when it came to choosing our wedding vows and choosing our songs for the service Jenny and I were adamant that everyone would know that Jesus would be the centre or our marriage. If either of us died we both know that the other would still be able to continue in life ,living for God, because He is the rock in our lives and not each other. I do believe that the society we live in makes little gods out of many things but am certain that children are the number 1 for so many people and that includes lots of Christians. Even for those who don't have children wanting them can still make them into a god.
It's not easy and God has to keep us in check but what we build our lives on is what will hold us up at the time when we feel like we're going to collapse. I pray not to be tested in this area but I always want to be aware and declare that I have no other god before the great I Am that only thru Him can I live and that on the rock of my relationship with Him is my life built.