“Life ultimately means taking the
responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfil the tasks
which it constantly sets for each individual.”
— Dr. Viktor Frankl (1905–1997)
Without any shred of doubt life is
not life automatically because we live and breathe. No, life has a spiritual
quality that only some partake in. Many take the common road, which is laden
with the appearance of ease, but is indeed tougher than it needs to be. Few
take the road less travelled. And few of the many actually see the advantage in
how the few live.
God gives people exactly what they
want. Where a person insists on their own way, God insists they should have
that freedom—a freedom to choose for bondage.
Life’s number one task—the chief
objective—is to assess one’s way and make proper passage, one decision at a
time. We all have our problems, as we all have our tasks. Assessment is the
first step in making a plan and executing it. By our assessment of things we
determine the passage we are to take, and then all we need is courage to act.
It Is a Hard Road to the Easy Life
We live in a life of opposite
parameters. We act in one way and we inevitably redeem what we sow, but we are
quickly fooled by impure motives.
When we seek the easy life, we end
up with a hard life. Yet, when it is our principle to live diligently and
morally, which is to the many the longer and harder life, we set ourselves up
in the reliability of blessing.
When we learn the lesson that
taking responsibility for our lives is blessed, we open a hard gate to the
easier life. Living for God may not be the easy life, but it is easier than living without God, simply for the fact
that living for the truth provides peace And true freedom, but a freedom that
is exacted by a commitment to pay the price that life requires us to pay.
Life is life and there is no
better way than to receive.
When we meet the truth of life,
and we commit to life beyond our anxious fears, we allow the truth to speak
power into our lives. When we live in a way that meets our problems and
wrangles with our tasks, not shirking our responsibilities, we are ready to be
blessed by God.
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Our problems and our tasks are our responsibility. We cannot
delegate this responsibility. How great it is, then, that we have a
compassionate God who gives us not what we cannot handle. Our destiny is to
execute our responsibilities; to take the road less travelled.
© 2013 S. J. Wickham.
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