As structural integrity is to a house, so is personal integrity to an individual. Without constantly ensuring that your personal integrity holds at all times and in all circumstances, your entire life could come crashing down right before your eyes.
There's a father in whom love prevails, always. We could argue today that the more we strayed away from the father, the closer he came. He searches for us, nurses us to health from sickness, prevents the devil from taking undue advantage of us, clothes us, gives rain and sun for food. All the while, working out his plan to restore us to our original position of authority and dominion.
These brief descriptions will give you a sense of who you were originally intended to be, what man lost, as well as what he stands to gain if he makes a decision to return to the king's side.
... the question I want to address in this post is: How do you find a constant in this constantly changing times? I'll try to show you that though the waters may look murky all around and the spaces occupied by quicksand keeps expanding around us, there is still a safety net, a solid rock, that is accessible to all. There's still a reason to be hopeful and expectant in times when the situations around us dictate the opposite response of giving up or losing hope is better.
Everybody wants what they want and nobody sacrifices for the other. Therefore, placing trust in people and expecting them to be absolutely moral and selfless in their decisions with regards to others, is a difficult and untenable road. This is more so in the case of democracy where representation is prevalent. In the case of communism, I imagine everybody would have to genuinely care about everyone else which is almost impractical given human nature.
In the great show of life, we are each puppets among a larger group of other puppets and just as described earlier, we each have a purpose whether we accept it or not. To take it further, each purpose is uniquely puppet-specific. The analogy follows then that there should exist a master in the background who plays the role of the controller. But there is a catch, an important one at that, and it's this.
Whether you are into business, science, entertainment, arts, raising kids, education, government or any sphere of life, organizing your life by this idea can bring you to a place of permanent peace and prosperity.
This idea is straight-forward but not always easy to come by or accept. It can be said that humans are like puppets who depend almost entirely on the puppeteer. If that is the case, what happens when we decide against the master?
Life can be very difficult to navigate as puppets without a master. Ever so often we find ourselves languishing for lack of direction. Eventually, almost instinctively, we look up. We always look up and then ask: "why me?" Ever wondered why that is?