Friends Purge and Being Important

I realize I write long entries on this blog. Perhaps that's why no one leaves many comments. Or they just don't like me enough. Oh well!

I just got done with chapters 7 & 8 in Searching for God Know What. They were incredible chapters. To make it short, Miller says that the problem with humanity is that our focus is out of whack. We are looking to each other for our validity instead of to God. Before the Fall, God was our source of importance and validity. Now, we try to get it from each other. It goes right along with wanting to be our own god.

Basically, he likens the human state to the lifeboat analogy. Apart from God, we're all on a lifeboat deciding who should be thrown from our vessel. Our worth comes from a jury of our peers, and the sentence for not measuring up is drowning in the ocean of life. This is something I see on Facebook all the time (unlike Tye, my name is Facebook appropriate). Even in my own life, I try to validate my existence by accruing more friends on the social networking site. Recently, I had had enough. I went through my list of friends and got rid of about 300 people. They were people from my past with whom I have no communication. I was awakened to the fact that the only reason I have them as a friend was to say that I had 500+ friends, or in the hopes that they would see my profile and see what a remarkable individual I was.

The point of the matter is that we should be seeking to have our validity come from God. The two most important people in my life, God and Jessica, both validate me. I can stand being important to only two people. Can you?