In my last blog post, I referred to us
living by fear, rather than faith. I'm going to continue with that
message and expand on it. It's something that's been on my mind and
I just find it amazing that my pastor at church on Sunday brushed or
mentioned some of the points I'm going to discuss today.
The world/culture/society drives us to
buy stuff out of fear, drives us to buy stuff so that we will have
control of our lives. What I find sad about this is the fact that
what happened to God in all of this? Fear is just the opposite of
faith. The diagram that was portrayed at Church I feel describes it
at best.
In a world that teaches about buying
stuff to gain control – this is something driven out of
fear/anxiety; in the meantime someone who knows God may recognize it
as a vulnerability, but the person isn't afraid and therefore doesn't
need to go and buy something to gain control, because God is in
control.
Coming from a guy who's had his fair
share of anxiety issues, I must say that I may still be anxious about
things, but I bring those issues up to God. I bring those things up
to God so that I won't become fearful of those things. I bring those
things up to God that he may remind me that he's in control. I bring
those things up to God that he would drive out the fear and anxiety
and allow me to live a free life.
Now, I know people will tell me “but
you should be in control of your life”. My question is why? When
everyone around me seems to be in control of their life, but I could
probably write a list a mile long of all the problems the person has
in their life, but somehow they're in control. All I can say is that
a person only starts gaining control of their life, when they give up
their life to God.
Here's what I've learned....I'm not in
control of my life. I too know that nobody else is control of
theirs. People don't understand that when they think that their way
is better than God's way, they end up hurting someone in the end.
Somehow in the world, culture and society that we live in that is ok
for some reason...I just can't figure out why?
Jesus taught: Love your neighbour as
yourself.
This world teaches; as long as you're
happy, that's all that matters. The ironic thing about that is, I'm
yet to meet someone in this world who is truly happy.
Jesus taught: Love your neighbour as
yourself.
This world teaches: as long as what
you do doesn't hurt anyone else, that's ok. The ironic thing is
somehow white lies are ok, but when the truth comes out, you've now
hurt the person. I still find this one said as people believe that
white lies don't hurt anyone.
Jesus repeated over and over “I'm
telling you the truth” - yet we lie to people to get them to like
us, so that we will be happy. My goodness, how we're all so selfish
in this generation.
We may make ourselves vulnerable by
telling the truth, but we live in fear as we hope that a person
doesn't find out we've lied to them.
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free.
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