I know that in my own life I'm guilty of it. Guilty in the sense that I do things to make myself feel better while igoring the fact that God is capable of filling me. Right now I see it a lot with my grad school plans and just planmaking in general. The truth is though that now matter howmany bases I've been able to cover it still feels a lot hollow. That's the most obvious one to me right now though.
I know that I am guilty of it, definetly. It's easy to hear and read about our value to God. I know that God loves and accepts me, however it's much harder to live in that. It's a process, a dismantleing of the context of sin that I've grown up in. Evolving out of the falsehoods that the world has placed on me, and live in the truth of Christ's message to humanity.
We need Love. We were built with that need. It's the most pursued and war-ed over pursuit. Sadley, we still feel that we have to prove that we are deserving. We feel (I feel) that I have to have a reason to be loved... feel that I have to prove my own value, prove that I have worth, something to give. That's not truth though.
We are all so broken. Christ calls us to love one another, maybe if we did this, a lot of self-validation would end. Suffering would end. poverty would end. Lonliness would end.
It is good news. I'm trying to live in it more every day. ... still on the journey, still recovering from my conversion....
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Interesting, Kyle.
I think people share their faiths to feel validated.
Some (most) also date.
There's lots more, but I just want to throw out there that (I'm not a poet) I've had the good things.
They're simpler (quieter) than they get credit for.
-Kyle
Oh! It's not all the dating and faith-sharing that I mean! (Some of it is beautiful!)
Just lots.
i don't think I understand...
...people doing these things to feel better about themselves.
giving themselves a sense of validation.
"self validation"
I know that in my own life I'm guilty of it. Guilty in the sense that I do things to make myself feel better while igoring the fact that God is capable of filling me. Right now I see it a lot with my grad school plans and just planmaking in general. The truth is though that now matter howmany bases I've been able to cover it still feels a lot hollow. That's the most obvious one to me right now though.
I know that I am guilty of it, definetly. It's easy to hear and read about our value to God. I know that God loves and accepts me, however it's much harder to live in that. It's a process, a dismantleing of the context of sin that I've grown up in. Evolving out of the falsehoods that the world has placed on me, and live in the truth of Christ's message to humanity.
We need Love. We were built with that need. It's the most pursued and war-ed over pursuit. Sadley, we still feel that we have to prove that we are deserving. We feel (I feel) that I have to have a reason to be loved... feel that I have to prove my own value, prove that I have worth, something to give. That's not truth though.
We are all so broken. Christ calls us to love one another, maybe if we did this, a lot of self-validation would end. Suffering would end. poverty would end. Lonliness would end.
It is good news. I'm trying to live in it more every day. ... still on the journey, still recovering from my conversion....
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