We go to the Dr. and he examines us with all his medical tools and we expect a diagnosis and a treatment. We go to church and listen to sermons and Bible studies and we get a nice packaged plan to take home. We go to restaurants and order specifically what we desire. We get our oil changed from the guy at Walmart and then they tell you everything else that is wrong with your car.
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We live in a world that we expect someone else to do it for me, to do it to me, but please don't make me do it.
This has lead us to what Socrates might call a life not worth living. (He lived in BC, so really it is nothing new, but our culture struggles with this more now than ever.)
Socrates said, "The unexamined life is a life not worth living."
A life worth living would reflect one who has examined his or her life.
We have become comfortable and content with our traditions and routines of daily life. We have become conditioned not to think for ourselves, which has hindered our ability to examine ourselves. Possibly we do examine ourselves but we may fall into this catergory that Gary Varnerchuk said in his book Crush It, "We all have a great ability to create self-awareness, but the problem is that we lie to ourselves."
How do we go about examining our life?
- The first response would be to examine ourselves under the light of scripture and God's eyes. (I Cor. 11:28, 2 Cor. 13:5, Pro. 5:21)
- After probing the scriptures we need to ask ourselves questions that lead us into the quiet places of our soul.
- Once we start to examine ourselves there might be a desire to flee to our comfort of not thinking and asking ourselves questions, at this point I would encourage you to allow the truth to speak into your life and not lie to yourself as Gary would say.
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