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Freedom from Me 10/29/2009
Guest Blogger: Morgan Morrow The definition of "signal-detection theory" is that our core beliefs, our attitudes, and even our current mood all influence how we perceive just about everything. The illusion is that the way we judge things is by the thing itself...the truth is, a lot of how we see things is actually dependent upon us. There is an old saying..."The world is a mirror." (All the worthwhile stuff in modern psychology is actually ancient wisdom put in clinical terms.) This goes along with what I've been chewing on the last few days...the biggest addiction most people will ever face is the illusions created by a self-oriented life. What I mean is that many people, if not most, really deep down see life as a movie about themselves. When we leave the room, the camera goes with us. The other players are just supporting cast...mostly character actors...the plot is about us. To be redeemed means to walk away from that prison. The Truth outside that prison is much, much larger than our screwed-up perspective from the inside. To walk with Christ means that the self-oriented perspective dies daily as we become more and more free. We are free from the need to impress others, free from being in love with our own opinions, free from constantly measuring our own success, free from the burden of trying to force our lives into what we think they should be. And most of all, free to actually beleive that God loves us as we are and not the way we will be when we finally get it all together...Because we are never going to get it all together. | ArchivesFebruary 2010 Categories |
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