There are many things in life that we wonder about, even question. Where did I come from, why am I here and where am I going? These three questions are always on people’s mind. The need to find this information for ourselves if nearly if not absolutely critical to the sanity we seek. That is true introspection. If we don’t find or accept our own personal answers to these questions we are incomplete and unable to resolve the importance of our own life.
That is not the only thing that we need as an individual. It is inherent to our natures to know who we really are.
How well do we really know ourselves? Is it true to say the we still don’t know everything about ourself? I would have to say yes. There are still parts of ourselves that we cannot face or do not know are a part of us.
Experience has provided us a clear picture of how well people really don’t know themselves. In an effort to gather personal details we have a list of the true and what we want to be true.
Either a person is arrogant toward their own accomplishments or self-defeating. The inherent nature of mankind is to see after power and prestige, honor and praise from their peers. The nature of man is to seek after wealth at any cost, step on others, lie, and take advantage of others when they make mistakes or say something that will benefit us.
Be honest and ask this question of yourself… How often would I return a one dollar bill to the rightful owner if I saw that person drop it? What would happen if you were to find $1000 and you didn’t know who the owner was? Would you turn it in to the police? Would you see the owner of that money? Would you even go to the length of putting out an add in the local paper to have the claimant describe the most likely place the money was lost and contact the police for the actual location?
How would you react if someone didn’t charge you for a meal on a ticket in a restaurant by mistake? Would you point it out to the server or would you actually leave it quiet, after all it was a mistake in your favor? Why tell anyone else if it were not true?
I have heard rumor among my peers and in various conversations that William Shakespeare was actually not a real person but a concocted machination dreamed up out of the minds of the likes of John Wesley or John Wycliffe. The reasoning behind this, as was explained, was to convey or teach the people, the huddled masses, correct principles in a manner that they would understand, to brain wash them or control their media, to teach them the ways of the benevolent and the enlightened.
I believe that William Shakespeare was a real individual who tried to help people understand what being human was all about. The different foibles of life and the difficult decisions that we have to face everyday are like, and how to deal with them. After all, isn’t art an expression of current events and the artist’s feelings toward those events? Having diverted on this tangent, I want to explain why…
The play Hamlet portrays a few words of wisdom to the listener, “This above all: to thine own self be true,/And it must follow, as the night the day,/Thou cans’t not be false to any man “. We are warned that we should not be false even to ourselves or we deceive ourselves and provide a lasting diatribe to humanity that we are false and unable to show even the most clear sense of self. We must know who we really are. Christ stated that we should clearly take the beam out of our own eye before trying to take the mote out of the eye of our “brother”. His knowledge of wood and the splintering capabilities of this material are clear. If we go against the grain of what is foundationally true, not interpretatively true (as some will say, it is Ok to use Drugs or smoke on occasion because it is my life), we pay the consequence of our action. It is impossible to lay the burden on someone else, even the one that enticed us to partake, because the decision ultimately lies with us.
True humanity is dealing with reality, the one that we create by our choices, not one that is predestined because God knows all from the beginning to the end. He only knows the results that will come about by the decisions that we make if we remain on any particular path. He is NOT STUPID!!!!! His knowledge of life and the choices we make are so clear to Him because He has been there before.
Just like our parents were teenagers once, they know what types of things turn the heads of the teenage mind and the things that most teenagers think about during those years. This is our youth in eternity. We are sent here to see if we will follow the plan that we supported before we arrived here. The challenge that we have is, are we willing to submit our will to the Will of the Father? Are we willing to say, “Thy will be done, and not mine“. It is not a choice of whether it is our life or not, because it is NOT!!! Rather it is a choice of whether we will keep the commandments that God has laid down for us. He knows the real path; he has run the road and will not ever lead us astray from absolute true (which does exist, by the way, for those that think it doesn’t), but wants us to learn all absolute truths as they are, not as they can be interpreted by man.
We are adolescents in the perspective of eternity, and God is a fully grown adult that knows everything that will result from stupid choices and misguided or rebellious attitudes. We are free to choose His will or not. The agency is expended now comes obedience to that agency or disobedience as an antithesis to the absolute truth that is God and His ultimate plan.
I know that His plan is true and sure. There is nothing that can dissuade me from it. That is a fact of life. I have chosen, like Joshua of Old, …as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”


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