Four basic questions:
Who am I?
Now I'm here, what am I supposed to do?
Who are these other people, and how am I supposed to relate to them?
I'm going to die. How do I handle that?
Identity
Purpose
Relationship
Mortality
Reliance on God provides answers:
I'm a child of God, born of spirit.
My purpose is to do God's will.
My relationship to others: love, forgive, and serve.
I'm not going to die: spirit can't die; I'm not a body.
I tried to solve these questions in other ways, placing my reliance for answers in the finite and the vulnerable: the material world. Fear was inevitable: self-reliance had failed me.
The answer is to stop trying to solve these myself and relying on God instead.
Who am I?
Now I'm here, what am I supposed to do?
Who are these other people, and how am I supposed to relate to them?
I'm going to die. How do I handle that?
Identity
Purpose
Relationship
Mortality
Reliance on God provides answers:
I'm a child of God, born of spirit.
My purpose is to do God's will.
My relationship to others: love, forgive, and serve.
I'm not going to die: spirit can't die; I'm not a body.
I tried to solve these questions in other ways, placing my reliance for answers in the finite and the vulnerable: the material world. Fear was inevitable: self-reliance had failed me.
The answer is to stop trying to solve these myself and relying on God instead.