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I struggled today with deciding whether or not to buy an Xbox 360 game that I had on pre-order for a couple months – Fable 2.  I struggled because I wasn’t sure whether it was something that ‘God would approve of me doing’.  The feeling I faced was whether my time should be free enough to be spending on something like that or whether I should focus that time on the Lord.  

In studying Ezekiel tonight, Chuck Missler talks about idol worship.  He says that “Any kind of excessive preoccupation with something other than the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, can become an idol.”  

Now the question is, what’s considered excessive?!  Idols offend God.  Our attention and commitment must be on the Lord.  He may even reward the diligence of making decisions that I think He may not necessarily ‘expect’.  For example, maybe it’s ‘ok’ in His eyes that I play a video game here and there, but maybe, just maybe, it brings Him joy when I choose Him.