Problems—what I learned on television

Imagine that you wake up tomorrow morning as the best version of yourself. What would this look like in a normal day of your life? Write it out as a brief story. Then, imagine that you wake up the following day as the worst version of yourself. What would this look like? How would you behave? What decisions would you make? Write a brief story to describe what this day would look like.

If anyone reads this blog, i encourage you do just as this paragraph asks. I am not going to write it here…

1). How did you respond to the statement that “the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse”? Do you agree of disagree? Why?

I totally agree. We have to constantly check ourselves, if we don’t we will live a perverse life. Why is it you have to teach a child what is good, not bad? We never grow out of that. We must always be constantly being checking ourselves, seeing if we are living perverse or a life that God would be pleased with, liberating others and seeing the Kingdom move forward here on earth.

2). What is the greater problem in the world, corrupt politics or you?

I think everyone would like to say that the answer if corrupt politics. We, as humans, think too highly of ourselves. We think we are good, that God likes good people. We fail to see ourselves as depraved, lost and lonely with out God in our lives. We think we are fine, but really we aren’t.

The question that begs to be asked is who makes corrupt politics? The answer, people who are no different than you and I. Sure you could say the system made them corrupt, but yet again who made the system, people. We are all depraved and when we leave God out of the picture our systems of government, business, schooling, etc are all going to reflect this corrupt and depraved nature we all have. We are all capable of being corrupt, but with Jesus in our lives, we are able to overcome this.

So ultimately I AM the greatest problem in the world!

3). If you could sum up all your thoughts, motivations, and actions in a day as a total 100 percent, what portion of that amount is spent on yourself and how much is spent on others?

I know I am selfish. I am a minister so my job requires me to do things for others and plan things for others, but I still think a lot about what I like, what I think we should do, how I could fix the problems. So probably the percent that actually goes to thinking of others is no more than 5%.

I spend 95% of the day think selfishly about myself! How ridiculous…