Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Chapter 5 - Paradigm Spirituality - Do you trust God?
We continue our study in paradigm spirituality. If we truly trust in God, then we will live with an eternal value system, right? One of the good analogies was that of staying in a hotel - no matter if one stays in a flea bag or 5 star, everyone lives out of a suitcase. We are temporary here on earth so we need to live IN today, but FOR tomorrow.
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What do you think of this... "...as C.S. Lewis noted in The Screwtape Letters, 'Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work, build up in him a sense of being really at home in earth."
ReplyDeleteGiven this, I need to examine my life and ask how comfortable am I? If too comfortable, maybe my faith is not real. The barameter should be a widening circle of acquaintances that I am able to share the truth of the Gospel.
DeleteDo you agree... "I have discovered that while everyone has a world view, a philosophy, a set of presuppositions about life that they hold by faith, few people are aware of it. Of the few who can express their fundamental assumptions about human existence, only a fraction have thought through the logical implications of these logical implications with the way they live."
ReplyDeleteAgree. Very few people consider their worldview as it relates to how they interact with and in the world. I guess it just takes too much time and effort to really dig in and align what you think with how you live. And even if we did, it would be so sporadic that it would difficult to manage - but still a worthy goal.
DeleteDoes this speak to you? "We have a clear sense of birth, but a theoretical sense of death. Understand that you have a certain number of days. There is no good time to die. You don't retire from life and get ready for death. When you leave this planet you will never again have the privilege of sharing the Gospel, serving the lost, feeding the poor."
ReplyDeleteThere IS no good time to die, for sure. It is a mystery and since it is the last thing you do and it is not a "happy" exerperience for most, we don't dwell on it too much. I do like to perspective that "When you leave this planet you will never again have the PRIVILEGE of sharing the Gospel, serving the lost, feeding the poor." How will that change how I interact with the world? Or will that be yet another should of, could of, didn't thing?
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