by Trent ... In continuation from Daily-Hell 102 ...
Not only are all humans born "insane" (unlike The Lord Jesus,) but another part of our daily-hell is caused by our self-centeredness.
The examples of self-centeredness are as ubiquitous as the desparation found in personal ads in the newspaper, and as integral to the human condition as the lyrics to love songs ...
Lyrics from "If I Give my Heart to You," by Jimmie Crane, Al Jacobs and Jimmy Brewster [1953, 1954]
Will you fill my emptiness
and drive away my loneliness?
Will you promise you will be true to me
and always treat me tenderly?
Will you sigh with me when I am sad,
and will you smile with me when I am glad?Think it over and be sure, and please don't
answer until you do.
And when you promise all these things to me,
I'll give my heart to you.
Next time you attend a wedding, see if you don't hear the presiding minister say something like this:
Excerpt from common marriage vow:
"As the two of you truly join together as one,
each depending on the other,
you will feel no emptiness, no loneliness, no cold nor pain"
I know all too well this daily-hell, of waking up empty, and walking through life as a black-hole. We are like vampires, sucking life from each other ... or actually like ticks without a hound ... sucking blood from each other, where each of us haven't the blood to satisfy ourselves, much less anyone else.
Nothing physical can satisfy these spiritual needs, and in our self-centeredness we develop strategies to attempt to lay hold of these things through friends, families, spouses, and even strangers. No matter what they give us it is never enough. It is like trying to eat soup using a fork. There is a bunch of hard work going into eating, but the hunger remains.
Does Jesus merely save you from hell-in-the-future? Could there be a part of salvation that delivers humans from the daily-hell of self-centeredness?
John 4:13-15 (New International Version)
Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."
And so comes the consummation, and it shall come quickly...behold, the Day is it hand. So then, beloved, who call of themselves by My own name, run and speak to the desolate. Run and raise your voices, blow the trumpet and the alarm of war! Speak to the poor in spirit and the destitute of Truth. Speak, My children...arise and speak! Listen to the watchmen, and give heed and so do. Follow Me, and obey all I have taught you, beloved, and keep My commandments and those written in stone by the Fathers own anger. Yea, keep them, even to the writing of them on your own hearts, says the Lord, your Redeemer. You are bought for a price...now follow Me. And take the hands of all who will, and bring them with you. [Jesus speaking] (Servants, Arise. The Kingdom of Men is Finished...The Kingdom of The Lord and His Christ is at Hand! - Letter from God and His Christ - Volume 7)