Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a five-day-a-week variety show that mixes encouragement,

the Bible, practical how-toes, and fantastic guests for the listener on the go. I'm Lisa Whittle,

and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well-spent.

Happy Monday, friends, and I hope this will be an amazing week for you. Okay, so look,

we hopefully agree at this point that Jesus needs to be over everything because Jesus is our

everything. But why isn't he first in our lives? I think this is a frustration for so many of us.

Flesh, human nature, yes, all of it. I want to talk for a few minutes today about what's going on

with us and why it should really come as no surprise.

So I won't rehash Friday's show, which if you haven't listened, I hope you will, because

it's

five ways to put God first in the new year, and I really tried to give some good tangible to-do-nuggets

in there. But today's show is kind of the root cause to why a list like that is even necessary.

For as far back as people exist, we've been making things into idols, and the biggest idol has been us.

An idol being something or someone we worship. And I don't know that in our everyday life, we think

of idolizing ourselves over God or idolizing ourselves at all. But so often the self-iddle is what

it really is about for us. Self-iddle examples are like this. It's kind of like saying,

I want this no matter what. So we do whatever we want or feel no matter how it affects others.

Or saying something like, I'm going to do things my way, even though God has specifically

told me something different. And maybe we're not saying that out loud, but we're saying that in the way we behave, or even in our own mind or in our own heart. And so we do things

our way, not his. We work our plan, not follow his. The idol of self had Adam and Eve sinning in

the garden. It had David getting into sin with Bathsheba, then having her husband killed. It had Judas betraying

Jesus and it even had Lucifer trying to be equal with God and being banished forever to hell.

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