Drive from Dallas to Houston, and a giant white statue of Sam Houston, Texas icon, leaps 67 feet into the air beside I45.
Houston was one of the first two individuals to represent the new state of Texas in the U.S. Senate. The city of Houston was named for him. Houston deserves his moment in the sun.
The Statue of Liberty, at 305 feet, dwarfs Houston. She may not represent a real person, but the ideals she espouses are vital to our nation. No one finds fault with Lady Liberty standing in New York harbor.
Visit the bronze-clad statue of Sardar Patel in India, and you will strain to see the face on the 600-foot-tall structure. The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, located on a mountain, is barely more than one sixth the size.
Have we built a statue to us?
What do we want people to see when they look at us? Our family, our job, our house, or perhaps our reputation?
Is who we are more important than who God is in our lives?
Galatians 6:3 says:
“For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.”
The statue of Houston has been criticized by cancel culture. He owned slaves. Lady Liberty espouses freedom, and we’re seeing immigrants restricted from entering America. Patel’s bronze likeness has been the subject of protests in India, saying the money for the government project would have been better spent on the poor.
Our self-worth must be rooted in God, not in how we are perceived by the world. When God lifts us up, all praise must flow back to him.
Jesus is our source and our solution. To him be all the praise.
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