Reality Vs. Idealism

I was just thinking this morning of the worlds we live in and the experiences that we go through and the way they affect our lives and the way we respond to things. I thought I would jot down a few of my thoughts.
For example when I say the word roads, many pictures will come to mind, both of good and of bad roads. But the pictures will be different depending on our exposure and experience of roads.
I live in Kenya where the roads are, to say the least, a nightmare! I have two pictures of roads (Posted here. The good road I rode on earlier this year when I was in South Africa and the bad road I drive on every week going to teach BTCP/L in the village) and I have experienced both roads. So when I say Bad Roads or Good Roads these are the pictures I have in my mind. Therefore my experience and exposure affect the way I respond when hear people talking about roads or when I myself is asked to talk about roads.
I have realized that that this is the case with God as well. God comes in different shapes and sizes in the lives of professing believers; Even though God is the same yesterday, today and forever, the reality is that, He is not that to all of us believers. Our exposure and experience with God determines the way we respond to life. I have been observing and watching many believers in the last few weeks (including myself) and came up with the conclusion that most of us as believers are pious polytheist – meaning that that we have many gods in our lives without even knowing it.

Let me explain. Our mouths – I think have the biggest God in our lives! Our lives do not have the same size God that our mouths proclaim - they are two different Gods. An example would be something like the mouth saying things like how I love God and I want to honor Him with my life and then later on the same day lie to a friend, crack a course joke, talk behind someone’s back etc…I have been convicted especially in my own life that I am a Christian and my number one responsibility in life is to live for Christ – I fail many times but I have not and will not give up until the imperfect is made perfect…the litmus test is to ask oneself, where do I run when life does not go the way I want? Do I run towards the Cross or away from it...many times I find Dennis running away from the Cross to go take care of "business" and then come back when its all done!

Psalm 51:6 Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

By the way just incase any of you reading this know the minister of Roads in Kenya tell him the road from Likoni Ferry to Ujamaa needs a lot of work and if the government does not do something soon it might be cheaper to build bridges over some of the potholes than to fill them up!

This sign is posted at the end of a very bad section of road between Mombasa and Nairobi! just a few meters a head there are cops there doing exactly what this Bill Board says not to do - Receiving Bribes! Mmmmm I think they can read!