Have you ever heard a child say,
“I want to be the most deceitful, crummiest, most despised person in the world when I grow up?”
Or have you ever known of newly weds who have started their marriage with the intent to make it the most miserable marriage in the world?
Absurd!
No one starts with the intention of making life miserable for themselves. Furthermore, no one starts out life wanting to be anything like the list we find in the book of Romans chapter 1:
“...being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.”
Yet the truth is, we hear about these kind of people all the time. We might even know some of them. Hopefully this list does not characterize who we are, or who we are becoming.
Yet the Bible states we are either going in one direction or the other. We are either growing closer to Christ or growing closer to the above list.
So the question begs to be asked,
Who are you becoming?
No one gets to be like the list above without making wrong choices a daily habit. Ask yourself as you watch this powerful video,
“Who am I becoming?”
The answer has profound ramifications for you TODAY!
Gio, good thought question! David Shenk in his book, "The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ " says that who we become is not only by the things we do "dynamic development," but by a multiplication of genetics and environment. Therefore, whatever we feed our senses (mind, body, and soul), our genetic makeup will follow suite. cf. II Corthinians 3:18
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. How did you come across this book. Would you recommend it for me to read? As you know this blog deals with that. Larie wrote a post on how our genetics can be changed.
ReplyDeleteI would definitely recommond reading that book: The Genius in All of Us.
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