Now I ’ve thought about two perspectives regarding our behavior. One, is the belief that
we’ve all been born sinners.. The second, is that we’re born into a sinful world. I’m going with the second one because I believe that we are born perfect, and our major objective is to love who we are, and to love those we share this world with.
I believe the very concept of sin has been overplayed, and that we can rather view our negative behavior as the mistakes we make in our treatment of ourselves and of others. We make these mistakes because we’ve been bombarded all our lives with the striving to be better than another. Our focus, on whether we’re superior or inferior to somebody else, makes it hard for us to think about how we’re treating them. How we view or treat another might make us uncomfortable at times, because our inborn intent is not to hurt them. However, by focusing on whose right and whose wrong, we usually see the other person as wrong, and wind up being overly judgemental and ready to condemn.
We’re so upset by how we’re been affected by another, that we negatively respond by talking about what they’ve done to us, verbally and/or physically lashing out at them with a vengenance, or we simply vow to never be involved with them again.We’re so focused on correcting their faults that we don’t even think about reassessing ourselves and considering the role we might have played in bringing about this discomfort.
Once we realize and understand, that our seeing a shortcoming in another has given us an opportunity to view our own faults, we can return to who we have been created to be.
A recognition of our own mistakes is the beginning of righteous living. It can lead us to an altering of our thoughts and actions, and can take us back to that original state of pureness of heart. Once we start embracing and enacting that state of being, we will begin to receive all the joy and peace that has eluded us for such a long, long time.
It’s simple y’all, but not easy, so let’s not beat up on ourselves if we make another mistake. Just remember that it’s an opportunity to experience our human weaknesses, so that we can return to being a blessing to someone else, and to ourselves in the process.
I’ll holla…
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Solid gold. Especially love the reminder that we are SHARING - golden nugget. Thank you, Calvin, for the reminder to let our hearts be light!!! p.s. I had written another reply, but not sure where it went so this is my 2nd attempt in case you do see the other one and wonder why I'm posting twice. You can post either comment as you see fit.
ReplyDeleteThank you Manisha, and I totally agree because keeping our own hearts light, allows us to share a lightened heart with others...
DeleteMaking mistakes are easy, correcting those mistakes can be difficult. I think the difficulty is because our integrity has been compromised. Not by others but by ourselves. What we say and what we do have to be in line.
ReplyDeleteThe only way to obtain righteous living is to be be in "right standing" with the moral law giver. In and of ourselves we are incapable.
So true Destry. Correcting mistakes is simple but not easy, because we want to appear to be 'right' even when in error. Being 'righteous' is our inborn objective, and even though we are quite capable of obeying
Deletethe moral law giver, we so often choose to do otherwise.
Calvin, man's most dangerous problem has been rejecting truth and trying to recreate life from our limited perspectives. This is much like looking up to kindergartners to be our scientists and teachers of society.
ReplyDeleteIt's unfortunate that the notion of GOD is more about religion than about life.
When God is the Creator and architect of every cell and all matter.
And it's even worse to believe that an Almighty All-powerful All-knowing GOD can be edited and reconstructed into the image of fallen man to the point that someone can overrule and compromise what He has established.
Sin is simply the violation of law established by the creator of a thing.
When you create something only you know all the ins and outs of how it works according to your own intent and design.
The intellect that created and designed the universe and all of life is far more than a super intelligence. It would be an insult to call merely a Super intelligence. Because for one he did not have to study research or collect any information. In fact he is the very fountain source of all things.
I would like to have a more in-depth conversation with you about this after you have responded to what I have set forth currently.
DaVon