I feel reprogrammed. Not sure how to get my words out of my mouth and onto the keyboard but something in my quiet time today struck me and gave me a mindset that I’m not sure how to compute yet.

To be honest my quiet times haven’t completely existed lately. They’ve been short and sweet here and there. But tonight mine was during my drive home from my cousin’s/godfather’s house. I was mainly praying about worth. What do we consider worth? I feel like lately I’ve been putting worth into so much more than God or even myself and other people. Like I’ll compromise a relationship because of something. And that was the problem in itself. It was because of something. Something material. Something earthly.

God put the thought in my head while praying that He created us in His image. Which is a cliche and well repeated [and worth being repeated] Christian Bible phrase. But it brought me to put the two thoughts together.

Who am I? Who am I to put something over another person? Another creation of God’s? His child? Who am I?

I am the same in God’s eyes as the other person I’m lowering below myself. Rather than “considering others greater than myself” I lower them which actually lowers me.

It’s humbling though. God sees us equally no matter what I do to the other person and how much they didn’t do anything to deserve the way I feel about that person.

Now all of this was hypothetical while I was praying about it. It was more general in my head because there isn’t anyone specific this is about. But [and this is a big but] we do this everyday. We consider things, stuff, materials, man-made things, greater than not only ourselves but others [and God as well]. Whether it’s a job, money, you’re laptop or HDTV, a sport, an opportunity to better yourself, your time.

We compare God to these specks on this tiny earth that will be gone in a blink of an eye. Does that make sense?

I’ll end here.