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October 31, 2006
Self-Reformation
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love. --Carl Gustav Jung
Jung makes a good point, don't you think? Maybe even those of us who are in the first half of life ought to do these things: to study ourselves and our behaviors and bring them back into line with Truth.
That's the thing, isn't it? What is Truth? That's been the question since the beginning. Pilate asked it. That's exactly how the Enemy tempted Eve: "Did God really say...?" Getting her to question what Truth is--getting all of us to question what Truth is.
We know what Truth is, and it's our responsibility to recognize our tendency to stray from that Truth. Often it's like an undertow--our default settings that drag us back to our habits of sin, of self-centeredness, of pride, of desire, of need for control. Those responses are understandable, but they are not necessarily Truth.
We who are redeemed know what Truth is. We know Him and we know His voice. We recognize His voice, because He is our Shepherd, and we are the sheep of His pasture.
Once we know what Truth is--and reconcile ourselves to follow that Truth--then the task becomes constant reform. We must measure ourselves to see if we're falling back into error, untruth, opposition, and hostility, and commit to repenting of those sins and choosing the way of Truth again.
Someone Else's $0.02 | By The Newest Worker | 05:54 PM
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