So, during class on Monday we talked about This Blessed House and about characters.
During this time, I hope to unravel thoughts inside my head that still confuse me. Through just writing and venting, I hope to fully grasp the concept of our outer selves, our inner selves and ourselves in God.
Obviously outer and inner are grouped together. You can usually tell who is a good person and who is a bad person…that is if you are only looking from the surface. We usually think a happy bubbly person is nice and wonderful. But what happens if that happy bubbly person is actually far beyond wonderful and is actually manipulative and selfish. From first glance, you wouldn’t see that would you? It takes time to truly understand yourself and others around you. Just like it takes time to get to know characters in literature. You can’t really just read it once through and then figure out a character. This is why it’s so important to reread a story. How can you fully grasp a story with action, without knowing the why behind it? Every character does certain things not because it’s natural but because it’s in their personality, inner and outer. What goes beyond the words on a page is the meaning behind it. Simply just reading it once will only give you so much insight into which that person is in the story or why they are behaving that way.
And lastly, we in God are the hardest thing to think about. Because we change every day; we make mistakes everyday; we are in constant motion everyday;
I can’t really judge myself or others or even characters in a book. The most sacred place is our hearts where God dwells. And I will never know another person’s heart truly like God does. So how can I expect to understand the depths of love one has or doesn’t have for Jesus? It’s even hard for me to measure my own love and identity in him sometimes. I guess what I need to do, is not so much focus in on certain actions, but my overall character.
Hopefully, one day I will find out who I am in Christ.
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That's an interesting way to put all of this. I think the point that you make about not knowing a person fully until you get to know them personallly and likening that to rereading a story to get to know a character is a great way to put it; I've never thought of it that way. But it's so true that we can't judge the love someone has or doesn't have for Jesus, only Jesus and that person are that intimate to know the truth of it. But we are told that God looks at the heart as to where man looks at the outward apperance, Lord help me not to be one of those people! Even though my flesh sometimes rises and I do, it's something I need to stop doing because it's not my place and I'll never know the whole truth about that person. Great points in your venting! :)
ReplyDeleteVery well said Jordan. That was a good discussion! I would have to agree with what you said, its takes time to fully get to know someone and even then there's so much more we don't realize. And thats their relationship with God.
ReplyDeleteGood job, Jordan!
I constantly wonder how deep the soul really goes. That if people are so infinite beyond what they truly know of themselves and if sometimes people see deeper into their being than what they have limited themselves to see. Maybe there is this unifying force that allows us to draw closer, and deeper, into those that are all around us as we draw deeper into it.
ReplyDeletejordan i love reading your posts its so you... the way you talk is the way your write and thats a good thing! lol
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