Searching For Perfect
The thought, “Oh, I should get that” comes to mind. You pick up your phone, Google or search on Amazon for the item. Minutes turn into multiple searches. Maybe even hours of scrolling. Then it turns into days of obsessively researching. Looking for what?
The “perfect” item.
Your spouse asks you to go out to eat. You search nearby restaurants, looking for the “right” place, reading all the reviews. All in hopes of finding the “best” restaurant.
We have an ailment, so we turn to WebMD, to hopefully calm our worries, searching for the best diagnosis. But we all know what happens next, instead of stilling fears, it only increases them, as we try and become our own doctor, seeking to gain control of what we can’t.
I’m going to say what we already know, but I fall into this trap OFTEN:
WE WILL NEVER FIND THE PERFECT ITEM OR THING.
This is SUCH A CHALLENGE FOR ME!
We live our lives, focusing on the things around us, to satisfy us. We live our lives trusting the reviews of others, to dictate our lives. Where we eat. What we buy. When we go to the doctor. How do we even know that those reviews are legit? We want to think they are, but how do we really know? If you really think about it, we allow people we don’t know, to dictate where we eat! Interesting. Who says they have the same taste buds as us? If someone told me to get the hottest sauce at Buffalo Wild Wings because it was the best, my palate would be screaming at them.
What if we stepped away from what our screens tell us and just go to a restaurant that sounds good? Imagine this: We can make decisions without needing reviews and external data to tell us what to do!
Now let me speak from the other side. What if we trusted God in the way we trust other’s reviews and opinions? Instead of trying to find perfect on this earth (which we never will), we learn from the One who IS perfect? What if we went to the Bible instead of Google? Instead of unlocking our phones, we unlocked God’s word and allowed His wisdom to infiltrate our curious minds and live in the freedom that the other things don’t matter as much?
Like I said, I want to challenge myself in this too – what if we spent less time trying to find “perfect” on Google, and relied more on our perfect GOD to guide our steps by trusting the intuition He has given us. That even without Google, we can too, can make decisions because GOD has given us the brains to do so!
Seek God. Not Google. For God is all we will ever need!
