These days, as in all days, there is the encouragement to want more. More money, more satisfaction, more status, more love, more choices, more power, more achievement, more recognition and fame, more security, more, more, more. We are driven to want more but, for all the attention and effort given to this pursuit, what is it really delivering?
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Imagine with me, living a life where you lived in such peace that no matter what happened, you knew that everything would be OK? It would be like if you were a small child in a safe and warm home where loving parents constantly provided for you and valued everything about you. You didn’t have to “prove anything” or be something you weren’t- you were free to be yourself and you could play and create to your heart’s content. There were certain “realities” that would introduce messiness and limitations, even evil. But the “reality” of absolutely knowing you were loved for who you were, and that you always enjoyed the full attention of Mom and Dad, transcended them completely.
Have you ever asked, isn’t there something more to the Christian life than I’ve experienced to this point?
Or maybe you’re someone who hasn’t ever made a profession of belief in Jesus and you’ve asked, Jesus seems to be cool but what is up with Christianity as a religion?
Recently, in a flash of surprise, I found myself contemplating a word that I rarely think about and had never thought about in conjunction with Jesus before. In that flash I saw how really important the idea of respect is not only with regard to Jesus, but also for myself and others. It was something that I definitely needed to explore further and so I had to write myself a note to remember to do so (on the first thing that I could find to write on which was a piece of toilet paper 😊)
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