Some of us like to think that we are independent
in our beliefs, our thoughts and our actions.
But is this really true?
I'm Dr Rich Masek, the author of Ideolatry,
God is Not Your Problem.
Today, I would like to explore the question, Why?
Why? is a big concept, and it can be unnerving
when your 2 year old learns to ask, Why?
every time you say something.
But have you ever really thought about
why you do what you do?
How about why you think what you think?
Or even more profound, why do you believe
what you believe?
Our humanity can be described as having 3 parts.
We are spirit beings that have a soul, and live in a body.
Our soul consists of our mind,
our will and our emotions.
These elements of our soul could also be called
our thinker, our chooser and our feeler.
The circumstances of our environment or
our Life Filters, might have a great deal
of influence on these parts of our being.
Beginning early in childhood,
Life Filters begin to form and shape you.
Where you were born,
the presence or absence of parents,
the presence or absence of siblings,
the influence of peers, and the
religious culture in which you were raised
are just a few of these dynamic factors.
All of these and more have a great effect
upon our physical lives, but they also affect the
development of our spirits.
As we go through life,
we accumulate a lot of internal stuff.
Some of it is good stuff and some of it is bad stuff,
like baggage weighing us down.
But the sum total of all of it is who we are and it also
leads us on to who we will become.
We observe what is going on in our environment
and we learn from those observations.
Then we develop a perspective
which we use to assess, act on, or react to,
situations and ideas that we encounter.
Our perspective also leads us to conclusions
that create a reality that we call our own
and this reality becomes our version of truth.
It consists of the various pieces of
personal truth that we accumulate.
Our acceptance of this personal truth
is the basis for the Why? of our lives.
This level of truth is also at the core of the term,
Ideolatry, because our personal truth may be
based entirely on our human intellect.
Is your Why? based on environmental perspectives,
or situational, relative truth?
Is this where you find the Why? of your life?
Filtering through our perceptions of truth and reality
that come from our physical observations and
experiences is a good thing to do.
And, at some point we may need to do some
"house cleaning," because, at our core,
we are spirit beings that only live in our physical bodies
for a short time.
Our physical reality is what we generally accept as truth.
But it may not be based on actual Truth, because there
is a higher level of Truth that
God reveals to us in the Bible.
God's Word provides us a way to do our house cleaning
and gain a different perspective of what truth is.
This perspective is based on God's truth, not the
subjective, situational and relative truth that can come
from religious traditions or our personal experiences.
My book, Ideolatry, God Is Not Your Problem,
The Character and Nature of God, was designed
to help you see your Why? based on
God's Absolute Truth and
not on your own subjective version of truth.
God makes it plain to us in the book of Isaiah,
Chapter 55, verses 8 & 9 when He says:
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts."
I invite you to read Ideolatry and gain a deeper
understanding of God's truth through His Word.
Check it out at ideolatry.com where you can read my
Blog and download a Free Chapter.
And please join me for the next episode
in which we will discover what telephones,
computers, the internet, smart phones, radios and TV's
have to do with you and your relationship with God.
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