Did your work in aviation once seem to be the biggest and best thing in your life, but no longer does? Maybe that is because your career makes a lousy substitute “god” for the real One.
Even things we once felt valuable in our present existence, but with which we have grown disillusioned, can be infused with meaning when they are employed in the service of He who is eternal. This is what can happen when the finite acquires that infinite reference point.
We may find a new and healthy love for things that were once only useless idols in our lives (if, of course, those idols were not in the form of something intrinsically sinful). Anything morally neutral in this life can be harnessed to the eternal purposes of God and thus find new meaning.
They may even fulfill us in ways they could not when they were substitutes for Jesus Christ in our lives.
“The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply” -Psalm 16:4 (ESV)
