Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair. When I had my daughter a few months back I chose a

television show to watch in the downtime while my older son was sleeping and I was nap trapped by a

newborn and I chose to rewatch Downton Abbey. If you've never heard of it, it's a period drama set in the early 1900s following a family and their staff on their large estate.

And in a recent episode, they followed the lives of four of the young staff members, two

girls and two boys.

In this group of four, one girl likes a boy, but that boy doesn't like her. The other boy

likes the first girl but we know she doesn't like him it's the second girl who

likes him which leads to a lot of heartbreak and drama on the show.

And in the midst of this dramatic love triangle, the cook says something to the effect of,

it's not a problem that they're all young and in love but it's a problem

that they're all in love with the wrong people. See their problem wasn't that they loved,

but that they loved the wrong person,

thing.

And the show continues to play out showing us just how destructive it is for these four people

to go on loving the wrong person. And it made me think about a quote by the well-known

writer David Foster Wallace. He says, because here's something else that's weird but true. In the day-to-day trenches of adult life,

there's actually no such thing as atheism. There's no such thing as not worshiping.

Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

He goes on to say that there may be a compelling reason to worship a god from some religion,

because otherwise you end up spending your life

worshipping money or things or beauty or sex and all of those things will end up

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