Lately I’ve been doing lots of Objective-C programming. And when I say lots, I’m referring to browsing through google for hours upon hours. But I have to admit, I enjoy certain aspects of it. It’s creating. I enjoy jobs that are about creating something new. Some way that no one else has done it. I love learning new things. I like perfecting an art. But once I hit the end of the learning curve I tend to get bored and hate it. I don’t think that hating things when they get boring is good, but I do think all of us should love to learn new things. I perceive too many people to be sedated in a job where they are not doing anything new and learning new things. Many people go to work, let’s say at Walmart, they stock shelves, they drive home, they eat dinner, they turn on the their television/computer and enjoy their entertainment, and then go to bed and repeat the process the next day. They aren’t trying to learn. They’ve become happy with a fairly lethargic look on life. They don’t have a vision for growing because they aren’t learning. Learning will keep your vision on and about life constantly growing and expanding.
You know, I really like babies. They help me understand that as we grow up we become more complex. We don’t look at life in as much wonder.
They bring me back to the idea that my job as I grow older is to create a world that will give the generation after me a more beautiful life. A life where they can even more easily grow up and worship God. Rather than creating a world that revolves around me, instead I look toward a world that will go on generation after generation, long after my short life is over.
Why is stuff that is good for you not as tasty? Chocolate cake is much better than green gunk. (See below) Cookies are better than broccoli, etc.
Why is it that our flesh wants the candy of life? The carnal pleasures of money gotten easily, sex outside of the context of marriage, lies to get us ahead in life, etc. are what we want. Things that are good for us long term are not necessarily as pleasurable in the short term. It takes character, waiting, and obeying God to be successful. And lots of prayer, fasting, and reading His Word.
“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” ~ Matthew 16:26
I have good friends. I have a great family. I’m blessed. That’s all.
He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’ ~ Luke 24:6-7
