Dean, what you write is so true. As you will see in my book, the selection by Christoph Blumhardt makes very much the same point. The challenge for us is that we have lost the way when it comes to knowing what it means to be truly human. We are more accustom to living life on the basis of Adam's sin, who thought he could be like God, knowing good and evil. What I mean to say is that we as fallen humans prefer to assert our autonomy in denial of our dependency. This is the main reason why we are so anxious-ridden. Like you express, we don't live in accordance with who we really are or are meant to be: children of the father.
Dean, what you write is so true. As you will see in my book, the selection by Christoph Blumhardt makes very much the same point. The challenge for us is that we have lost the way when it comes to knowing what it means to be truly human. We are more accustom to living life on the basis of Adam's sin, who thought he could be like God, knowing good and evil. What I mean to say is that we as fallen humans prefer to assert our autonomy in denial of our dependency. This is the main reason why we are so anxious-ridden. Like you express, we don't live in accordance with who we really are or are meant to be: children of the father.
This is so scary I know it is true. Just don’t know how to get myself where I need to be.
I'm with you Cleta. This is where we must come to Jesus himself and ask him to do what we feel we can't. Have courage!