I’ve heard there are four questions all philosophers try to address:
These are stirring questions.
Are their answers any different depending on where you live – which kingdom you live in? How do their answers effect the way you live? What say you? (Maybe the title of this post should have been “Seven Questions”.)
Yes, this is one of those rough times of personal struggle. Blinded by financial wrappings on one eye and irritating health issues on the other, I find myself, feeling alone, groping in the darkness of this world to find the path out of the life-sucking muck.
They say I have a heart condition, for to be harried and hurried is said to be a lack of trust in God’s provision and a rejection of His offered rest (a condition of my heart). Carl Jung said it was not of the devil but was the devil!
I profess the LORD is my portion and my strength, God’s grace is sufficient, and His power is made perfect in my weakness. Now all I have to do is practice it.
Isaiah speaks our Father’s intent to us (42:16). “I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, By unfamiliar paths I will guide them. I will turn the darkness into light before them & make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.”
Well, amen to that!
“Leadership inherently involves followers, who will always have high expectations of a leader, and rightfully so. When we submit to a leader we desire that he be better than us, for our identity becomes intertwined in his. If we submit to a righteous man, then our self-esteem goes up, we feel good about being his servant, and we even see the glory of being subjected to him. We admire and appreciate him as well as desiring his direction, with the hope that he might lead us to the place where he is, for obviously he knows the way and is respected for it. When he asks of us things that we do not understand, we obey, trusting that somehow it will benefit us. Therefore, the two most frustrating things to a follower about a leader are when he cannot be respected and when he will not lead.”- Michael Wells, My Weakness for His Strength
His Kingdom Precepts 