Have you ever wondered about yourself? Who you are, How you got here, What makes you tick? This blog will move in the direction of helping you to find in the Bible the answers to those questions and more.
The purpose of this blog is to share with you something I have found. It might be that you are searching for the same thing. If so, maybe by my sharing on this blog I can help you by telling you what I have found.
What have I found? The answer to how God designed me and how I am to operate internally. Think of it this way. We all know how to drive the car. But how many of us know how it is designed. How many of us could explain that? And most importantly how many of us could fix it when it breaks down.
My search began about sixty years ago. The past five years have been an intense study of God’s word. That study has been an analysis of God’s word in specific areas of understanding ourselves. Now the various pieces of the puzzle are being put together.
Let’s begin this blog with two questions wrapped together. Has this been a good day or a bad day for you? And why? To help with the questions read in Paul’s letters, Romans 7:14-25 and Philippians 4:4-7.
I’ll start with a response to the questions in light of those Scriptures. It has been a good day and a bad day. Good because I see accomplishments in my daily living. Bad because I am trapped by past decisions that were not good and now I am asking Gods to deliver me from those depressing thoughts.
I see in those two passages my way out. Romans says, “Thank God, through Jesus, He will deliver me.” And in Philippians he says, “Rejoice, because God through Jesus will guard my heart and mind with His peace.”
All of my days can be good if I turn to Jesus, but throughout them there are going to be some bad moments. I’ll have to work on the “why.”
The modern day study of psychology for the past 150 years has attempted to answer those questions. Some answers and solutions have been given, but none of secular psychology looks to the divine or spiritual impact in our lives. Christian psychology has attempted to give answers, but they too have not established how God has designed us and how He impacts our situations.