We aren’t always faithful to live by our purpose(why) and worldview to make choices that align with them. We all do things we don’t want to do. We know that at heart we are people of integrity but every now and then we lie. We know that something is bad for our health, yet we eat it. From time to time, we all deviate from our true north. We wander from our true selves. We stray from our ideal standards.
As we all know, drifting from our purpose and worldview is a slow fade, it’s a slippery slope. When we start telling small white lies here and there. There is a certain corrosive effect that has on our conscience and our ability to stick to making decisions that reflect our true selves and character of integrity. On the inside, we know we are being fake.
The lenses with which we see the world are tainted and blurred by this contradiction. If we go on and make key decisions without restoring our lenses to their original clarity, we are likely to make decisions that don’t align with our ideals. We don’t want to make major decisions that align with a blurred expression of our true selves. We don’t want to make significant choices in our moments of weakness.
What we want is to align our decisions with who we are at our best. Even though we may stray and act in ways that don’t reflect our best, we hope that those moments are short-lived. And fortunately, they are usually short-lived. But our major decisions impact us for the rest of our lives. In fact, the impact isn’t limited to us. A decision is like a ripple that spreads out from the decision maker and never ends. It impacts the maker and everyone else still to come. Each decision creates a butterfly effect. Today, we are suffering and feeling the ripples of bad choices that our ancestors made thousands of years before we were born. We are also enjoying the benefits of good choices they made.
Some people call this rededication repentance. The word repentance originated in religious circles to refer to someone repenting from a sin or wrong way of living. Sin means missing the mark. It means living in a way that deviates from what you know is the truth according to the word you believe and follow. I’ve said before that our worldview is the glass through which we see the world. Sin clouds those glasses and makes vision difficult. Confession and repentance (changing the way you think) are how you clean your glasses so that you can continue to see well.
Before you make a big leap, make sure your glasses have been cleaned and you are seeing clearly. Otherwise, you might jump into a hole or worse off the cliff because your vision is so poor you can’t see right.
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