Pensamientos para hoy (afterthought for today)
Life is like calculus
School is back in swing and the kids are already asking for help with homework. I'm happy when I see my kids doing homework. They are developing skills far more important than just the memorization of facts. They are learning to apply their minds. They are developing the ability to concentrate and think. They are learning to comprehend what they read and reflect, evaluate, and decide. I'm grateful for those teachers who insist that my kids memorize math facts and history facts but I am very grateful for those teachers who in addition to teaching the facts also take the time to help my kids learn how to think. Life is much more complex than simply being able to multiply and divide. Life is more like calculus. Multiplication is a simple linear or one dimensional problem. Most of us can easily learn to solve multiplication problems. Calculus requires the ability to think beyond linear or one dimensional problem. To solve these kinds of problems you must be able to "visualize" the problem in two or three dimensions. Life is like that. We are like that. Human beings are more than what they appear on the surface. We are all very complex and often complicated individuals. But do we ever take the time to think critically about our life? Do we ever take time to reflect on our life? Questions like: "What is my purpose in life?" "Why do I do the things that I do?" "Am I really satisfied with my life?" Until we take time to think about these kinds of questions, then we are living only a one dimensional life. It's time that we graduated out of the elementary class of merely existing (paying the bills, making the spouse happy, etc,) and move up into the advanced class of living a purpose-driven life. Take time to do some spiritual homework. Take some time today or tomorrow and open your Bible to Psalm 1 and allow God to speak to you on a deeper level -- His heart to your heart. Psalm 1 says:How blessed is the person who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law he meditates day and night. He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but they are like chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.Contemplating the deeper things, Pastor Steve
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