The illustration of a snowball rolling down a steep hill describes the hopeless sense of momentum out of control. Every day we attempt to function in this roller coaster existence of ill managed forward thrust. The result is a sense of insecurity. The unstable feeling of despair that that steals our hopes and expectations.
The four well known and personally experienced needs every human demands and desires are described as security, adventure, community, and significance. This first requirement we have for security is pursued every day. We are sometimes able to create an environment that gives us a false sense of security. But this is like grasping water. The reality of a world out of control (our control) is very unsettling. The sense of security is difficult to attain and even more difficult to maintain.
These needs are all inclusive but personally weighted and experienced. We all have varying expressions of our comfort levels of risk, the options required to produce a sense of adventure , the intimacy and autonomy levels that we define as community, and our measured and self-described significance.
I want to pursue the discipline of establishing and forming a foundation of thinking and living that finds my needs fully met in the plan of the Creator. I’ve come to see that the source of my wisdom determines the course of my life and that the beginning of this wisdom is the fear of the Lord. So let’s pursue this wisdom in the next few articles to obtain an overcoming life in this broken world.
Note the teaching series available at http://www.onthecornerstone.org.
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