“Don’t let your heart be deceived so that you turn away from the Lord and serve and worship other gods” Deut. 11:16 NLT.

Ever seen the movie, “He’s Just Not That Into You”? There are plenty of other dating movies, if you haven’t. You know the scenario: the woman is afraid to leave her phone for fear she’ll miss the important call and checks her voice mail obsessively just to be sure she hasn’t. She hopes and dreams that every man she meets will be her one true love.

Characters like that strike me as… pathetic. But I can’t judge too harshly. We’ve all fallen into moments of longing desperately for something, whether it was a date with our soul mate or a more lucrative career. It’s easy to fall into the trap of obsessing on the things we want and to allow this longing to control us.

But anything that means more to us than God is an idol. Those female characters in the dating movies don’t pray for God to send them the right guy at the right time and for the patience to wait until then. And how many men spend time in earnest prayer about the appropriate purchase of a boat or a job promotion? When our thoughts are fixated on something other than God, we’re travelling down the wrong path.

There’s a Praise & Worship song that declares: “I’m desperate for you… I’m lost without you…” You know, the only thing we can’t live without is a relationship with our Savior.