Destination Destiny
Destiny is not about where you end up,
It's about the whole journey
It's about the whole journey
I keep getting this sentence appearing in my mind these last few days. Thinking about this I remembered some lines in a poem I once wrote:
Teachers taught an amnesic learning
...forgotten the arts of true discerning
...forgotten the arts of true discerning
What we are taught is totally irrelevant to life, we're taught how important it is to have a wellpaid occupation, how important it is to make money, but we really need to be taught about what is right and what is wrong, because so many people no longer know that. Everytime we make that decision of right versus wrong we take a step, either forwards or backwards, on our destiny walk toward our destination. God's watching us now, we're making our lives now. If we think too much about something then it rules us, it's the same with what we do in life, if we're not living life right now, doing what we should be then how are we going to do that at the end?
posted by Rayd at 2:33 pm
7 Comments:
Man, that rules!
You've taken your first step into a larger world.
Time is the anteroom where eternal character is put on - and you dress well! Keep thinking and choosing and acting on the Word.
For someone who claims to be led by feelings, you seem to have a lot of solid LOGOS-logic:)
Being led by feelings doesn't mean I don't think. It also doesn't mean I follow my own logic all the time. I'm fortunate enough to have people behind me reminding me what is right and what is wrong so I don't struggle so much with this as other people, in my school for instance, may. I've got the Bible to back those people's opinions. When I look back on a lot of the poems I've written I can see that I have laid logical explanations on the table but thinking of how I acted to what I wrote I realise that as much as I pumped myself up to do something that I knew needed to be done I never seemed to end up doing it.
Are you talking about teachers in school? Because save for some across the board definitions of "right and wrong" it's not a teachers place to teach us those things, it's our Parents. We live in a world where most people's parents ideas of right and wrong aren't what we as Christians believe as so, and we can't force our (or anyone's other than the laws of the country) standards onto other people. Unfortunately.
I do agree lots at school can be irrelevant, and they should try to teach kids about the subjects and not about living in the world so much. So many times teachers make claims about the real world, which might apply to some people but not others.
In my opnion :)
And in the final analysis, if we make our decisions of right and wrong based on what other people tell us it is, rather than what The Word says, we will still be led astray.
God gave us Scripture for a reason: It's the TRULY thinking man's filter so he can minimize being deceived and keep the Adversary out of his life.
There are four fronts the adversary will attack you on: Yourself, other people, environment and culture, and idols and religion. If you secure the first front (Luke 4:2-12) the others will be of little use to him.
My five cents worth, school doesn't so much teach you what to think, but how. The information has very little power while the ability to sift and apply information into right ways of living does.
The Brain, like a muscle, when exercised grows stronger. While the "stuff" learnt at school may or may not be applicable, the more you learn, the greater your ability to carry on learning becomes...
Or so I was taught...
May I just point out that teachers are not neccessarily confined to people who have been to teacher's college. Anyone who influences other people by what they say or how they act is in effect teaching the person how to live. Andrew B, i believe parents are teachers too and the way they act influences not only their children's lives but also the lives of others who see them teach their children how to live. And how often do you find yourself saying things your father once said to you?
It seems to me that some things in teaching have become the norm, you're told that whatever your teacher at school says is true, but how often are they wrong? We're told to fit in with society, if we're from Japan and we come to New Zealand then we have to adapt to survive. We're told to live for ourselves because number one is the most important; when I was doing first aid the teacher told us that before we ever help someone we have to judge whether it's safe for us to or not, In Michael W. Smith's Kentucky Rose song the preacher/protagonist actually gives his own life to try to save another's. I italicised try because it wasn't about whether the person was saved or not, it was about giving them the chance. That really speaks to me, and it's not how we're taught to act. But look at the people who stand out in life, Mother Theresa is a perfect example because all she did was for other people..and God gave her the eyes of the world because of it. Did she care about publicity? No, she cared about making sure the people who needed help were helped, there's no
occupation of Steward of the World to go to when we leave school.
I agree we should still be learning things, but we don't have to learn keeping in mind that everything we learn is right, because quite often it isn't. I work in a resthome and there is a dementia wing. Coincidence maybe, but you can ask the people in the dementia wing what occupation they once had and you'll find they are the intellectuals of their time, the doctors, teachers, professors, etc. I can't prove that to you because there has been no research that I know of done on Dementia. But the point is that we do not have to keep learning irrelevent things that cloud our mind from what we need to know, God doesn't give salvation to just those who have an IQ of 150+ and can quote the first 50 definitions of the Oxford Dictionary. The ticket to heaven isn't based on that at all.
Don't get me wrong, i'm eager to learn... I just want to be learning things that interest me and things that will be relevant to my "destiny walk" whenever I happen to cross whatever obsticle I come to.
I don't get what you're trying to say, it seems like the point you've just made doesn't have a lot to do with the original post. Anyway..
Yes Parents are Teachers, but Teachers are necessarily Parents, and it's Parents (acting as Parents not Teachers) that should teach morals.
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