For as he thinks in his heart, so is he in behavior… — Proverbs 23:7a AMP
In my humble opinion, the two most crucial questions any human being can answer for themselves are these:
- Who am I?
- What is the purpose of my existence?
The answers to these salient questions are foundational to every one of our other thought processes and resulting behaviors. If we feel — whether consciously or subconsciously — our answers to those two questions are non-existent or inadequate, the likelihood of us sinking into depression — and possibly even resorting to suicide — are stratospherically high.
If our answers do not echo as Truth down into our deepest souls, we vainly embark on endless quests to find ones which do, typically leading to all sorts of addictions and/or other compulsive behaviors. Rather than bringing the peace we so desperately crave, those compulsions result in ever-increasing amounts of guilt and shame. Our incredible propensity to indulge in denial over the root cause(s) usually leads us to a point of despair, thus circling us back to the aforementioned issues of depression/suicide/etc.
That’s the bad news.
The astonishingly Good News is this: Jesus has answered those questions in spades — and truthful spades at that! — so we can have a solid foundation for our lives as we walk them out in a world whose darkness seems to increase exponentially by the day.
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Last weekend on Saturday night, using free tickets a friend of my wife gave us, we attended the production of an abridged version of Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Prescott High School in Prescott, AZ. It was the first time for me to see the play — I’d of course heard of it, but never saw it, assuming it was a biblical travesty like Andrew Lloyd Webber’s subsequent work, Jesus Christ Superstar. Turns out it wasn’t, so that was cool.