There's No Place Like Home - 09/11/2016

Warning Preachy…

Proverbs 5:8 - “She gives no thought to the way of life; her paths are crooked, but she knows it not.”

Yesterday I started taking a 3D design class with my son (9/8/16), and I learned about the 3D environment in which something is created.  In the world of the 3D object there needs to be a reference point of 0,0,0 from which to create all objects.  Without this reference point, nothing knows where it is and how to move or function: in relation to itself nor with other objects in its universe. 

Literally a few hours later I was talking to a friend, and she wondered why people chose the professions that they chose.  What was it that they liked about it, what was the attraction for them?  And then, not more than 30 minutes after that conversation, I saw a news report, from Chicago, about an old man who was watering his lawn when two men shot and robbed him.

Why do we make the choices that we make?  Why does one person choose to be a brain surgeon and another choose to shoot and rob an old man?  Why do we choose the paths that our lives take?

I believe it has to do with our individual reference points.  We all have them.  The problem is that each of has a differing starting point, each of our 0,0,0 starting points are different from one another, so we collide with each other and shake our heads in disgust by the other person’s ignorance and terrible life choices.

Is there an answer to my friend’s question about a person’s choice of vocation, or a solution for the person who considers murder and thievery as an acceptable path to walk in life?  I believe so, but it’s not easy.

My son has been playing with our 3D drafting software for months, he’s been creating drawings with many different elements and parts, but he did so not thinking about the 0,0,0 reference point that all the parts must share in order to properly function together.  How is he going to fix his drawings?  I suspect he is going to have to scrap what he has and start over, but this time rebuilding with the proper reference point of 0,0,0.

We call the scrapping of our lives being “born again”.  The apostle Paul calls it a dying to self in baptism.  No matter the semantics we use to describe it, the result is always a new starting point, and it looks like a Cross.

Luke 9:23 - Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me”