jeudi, mai 14, 2009 PDL Day 1: It All Starts With God  D wanted to do Warren's PDL, and I offered to accompany her along the journey. We're cross-blogging to keep each other accountable, but to keep the pressure light, the blogs don't have to be completely coherent.Day 01: The central idea is that nothing makes sense without starting first with God. That we get confused because ask questions "Why" that start with us. Having the wrong starting point leads us to places we never wanted to be in the first place. Thoughts: * The Bertrand Russell quote, "Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless" reminds me of someone who once asked me to read - with an open mind - his treatise on religion, "Why I am not a Christian". That was quite a clearly marked line that I thought I could bypass... but it's like a latitudinal line - stretched all the way around and there's no circumventing it. * The other interesting thing is the idea of success versus one's life purpose - what matters the most? We don't get to choose our life's purpose - we were made by God, for God. I think this is what sticks people the most - that we don't get to choose. But none of us could have made ourselves, so everyone's just angry at the God for making them, but that's like the pot being angry at the potter. We've deluded ourselves into thinking that we're in control, and that's why we're so angry when we don't get what we want (success.) Only after we - like addicts in the Program - admit that there is a Higher Power, only then will we be able to define our life's purpose, and only then, conceptualise what our idea of "success" is. * The Free Will covenant is a myth. Nowhere in the bible did God say that we have the freedom to choose Him or not. Freedom is slavery to the self - only surrender to God will bring release. This is the paradox of faith. * Constant renewal in the mind by reading God's Word will bring understanding. Nothing else will. My activities, friends, and entire life must remind me of God and my purpose in life here. This is where we falter - because we do stuff that doesn't remind us of God at all. We secularise our lives, thinking that we can compartmentalise. It doesn't work that well. Integration is the key to being a whole man, not a "double-minded man, unstable in all he does" (James 1:8) Libellés : PDL2009 [PDL Day 1: It All Starts With God] |
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