THE IMPERFECT WORLD AND IMPERFECTION
There is something internally, innately and genetically wrong with human beings. Something about our make-up just finds it so hard to be content.
Even when everything is going as well as possible, there is always something 'not quite right', someone to find something to nitpick over. And its not that it is right or wrong - if only it were that easy - but our insistence that our way is the way or the highway. Our way is superior.
And, when you know things are not going to be perfect, we really help the situation by lamenting on how bad things are because we seriously think that is going to help us. C'mon people, how long will it take us to realize the problem is ourselves and that change starts with the person we see in the mirror!
No wonder our world is not 'perfect' - if God gave us 'perfect', we still couldn't be satisfied.
Even when everything is going as well as possible, there is always something 'not quite right', someone to find something to nitpick over. And its not that it is right or wrong - if only it were that easy - but our insistence that our way is the way or the highway. Our way is superior.
And, when you know things are not going to be perfect, we really help the situation by lamenting on how bad things are because we seriously think that is going to help us. C'mon people, how long will it take us to realize the problem is ourselves and that change starts with the person we see in the mirror!
No wonder our world is not 'perfect' - if God gave us 'perfect', we still couldn't be satisfied.
posted by The Chilibuddy @ 11:13 pm ::
2 Comments:
hell, yeah.
(and thank Goodness the story doesn't end with us!)
ooh...looks like im all caught up!
my comment this time is that is precisely the reason why He is so concerned with the inside part of us...why the change within is such a big part of the redemption plan...i think in the great divorce by cs lewis, he talks about people who cannot be happy no matter the circumstance, and other people who cannot be stifled no matter the circumstance...here is another quote about the change part:
"...every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before.
and taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing into a Heaven creature or into a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow creatures, and with itself...
each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other." --cs lewis
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