Posted by Bryon on April 17, 2001 at 08:39:23:
In Reply to: why is it? posted by John on April 17, 2001 at 06:15:09:
: If we are supposed to have the joy of Christ and the hope of salvation, if all of our needs are met, then why is it that so many of our interactions are characterized by negativity and down-turned minds. Maybe it's just me, but I realized today, only moments ago that I don't have to feel this way. All it takes is the proper perspective, but we so quickly turn down again. Yes this world sucks, but I am not part of it. I want to feel good more than not, strangely I know that I don't feel good because of things I have placed in my own way. I want peace, joy, clarity, kindness. And I want it persistently. I know that I will continue to vacillate, butI want it to trend upward and minimize the extremes. I can accept nothing less than all of it and have to keep trying. In short, I'm tired of feeling tired and generally bad. Gratefully, I don't have to.
I'm definately there with you. I think it will be a lot less strenuous for us as christians when we really learn that God is everything. He is all. Once we truely realize this, all else will fall to the wayside as chaff, waste if you will. I think people feed on the whole downcast thing, because it seems to give place to a breeding ground of hopelessness (all the while being blind to it), which will bring sympathy or at least empathy. The problem here is that sometimes we as christians fail to give that up because we are still looking, in a weird sense, for the approval, or validation, of man. I could be way off here, but this is what I can sense. I mean, it defined the 90's music! Generation X. Kurt Cobain.