What's your furniture pointed at?

"You don't have a TV? What's all your furniture pointed at?"--Joey Tribbiani, "Friends"

I loved Joey, he was supposed to be pretty stupid, but he came up with things everyone else was thinking but no one said. I believe the above quote has a lot of insight. I have a question for you: "What is your furniture pointed at?"

Many people, if not most have a TV in their living room, and thus the couch and most of the chairs are "aimed" at it. Some people don't have a TV in their living room but in their "family room" or Den or some other room. Still others don't have a TV at all. BUT my point is if their is a TV in a room, the furniture is set up so that you can see it, it has become the center piece of the whole room.

If your life was like a living room, where would your center point be? What would all the furniture be pointed at? Your business, your job, your hobbies, TV, movies, sports, hunting, fishing, car's, girls, guys, drinking, ..........the list could go on for a while.

Exodus 20:23

New Living Translation (NLT)
Remember, you must not make any idols of silver or gold to rival me.

This verse could just as easily read: "Remember you must not buy that 100" LCD 3D TV, if it is going to rival me". Ouch I just stepped on my own toes, and more the likely many of yours. I will admit right here, I watch way to much TV. I spend hours and hours in front of has become an Idol in our society.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that everyone should burn their televisions, and protest in front of the TV stations. I am just asking: "What is your furniture pointed at"? Where is your focus point in your lives?

I love football, so lately I have been watching A LOT of college bowl games. Everything from the "Rose Bowl" to the "Hunger is wrong, so we are going to play a football game" bowl. To tell you the truth I am glad they are almost all over now. I mean this last weekend between NFL games and college, I sat there watching for about 10 hours. Football game after football game after football game. Where was my furniture pointed? Not at Jesus, not at the things of this world that really matter, but at what I wanted, the things I enjoyed.

Is it wrong to watch TV? No, I don't think so. Is it wrong to watch TV every waking hour? Yeah, that is a bit much. I am not talking about watching TV, verses not watching TV. I am talking about our focus, what is our attention on. What is our furniture in life, pointed at? Are we obsessed with our appearance, our money, our job, our "status" in the community? Do we, upon arriving at Church for services, take a lap through the parking lot so that everyone can see our $100,000 new car? Are our lives so out of whack that we even have our bed pointed at the TV in the bedroom?

I want everyone who reads this blog to understand something. I get these ideas throughout the day. Sometimes it is by reading a daily devotional, and the verse really gets to me, other times something I see or go through starts my imagination flowing, and this blog is the result. BUT, every blog I write, is from the Lord, and He usually, OK always, is trying to tell ME something, and I being the loving brother in Christ that I am, just pass it along:) This is for me, and I think, for many of you as well. I have heard my pastor say that it"s sometimes very hard to preach a message that steps on his own toes, because God deals with him first, before he can preach. I understand what he is saying, as ever time I get an idea for one of these, it has to do with where I am in my walk. So, please don't think I am trying to be "preachy" or trying to tell you what I think you should do. I am just the messenger, He gives the message. And just so you know, this one has REALLY stepped on my toes. Where is MY focus, what is the center of attention in my life, what is MY furniture pointed at?

So think about your lives, and look and see where your furniture is pointed. Maybe turn off the TV for a little while, and read a good book, or better yet the Bible for a few minutes. And "Joey" don't ever change, your fantastic, just the way you are.